“Milena - what a rich heavy name, almost too full to be lifted, and in the beginning I didn't like it much, it seemed to me a Greek or Roman gone astray in Bohemia, violated by Czech, cheated of its accent, and yet in colour and form it is marvellously a woman, a woman whom one carries in one's arms out of the world, and out of the fire, I don't know which, and she presses herself willingly and trustingly into your arms.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“I can’t feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“Nor is it perhaps really love when I say that for me you are the most beloved; In this love you are like a knife, with which I explore myself.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“Go on caring for me.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
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