“How long will it feel like burning, said the child trying to be kind.”
― Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
― Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
“Your smile more enduring, when it illuminates your sorrow.”
― Sonnets to Orpheus
― Sonnets to Orpheus
“This afternoon I couldn't get out of bed, not because I was too tired but because I was too "heavy" - again and again that word, it's the only one that fits me, do you understand this at all? It's something like the “heaviness” of a ship which has lost its rudder and which says to the waves: "I'm too heavy for myself and for you too light".”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“Continue to believe that with your feeling and with
your work you take part in what is greatest. The more strongly you cultivate this belief inside of you, the more it will give rise to reality and world.”
― The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation
your work you take part in what is greatest. The more strongly you cultivate this belief inside of you, the more it will give rise to reality and world.”
― The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation
“And, long after the amorous relation is allayed, I keep the habit of hallucinating the being I have loved: sometimes I am still in anxiety over a telephone call that is late, and no matter who is on the line, I imagine I recognize the voice I once loved: I am an amputee who still feels pain in his missing leg.”
― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
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