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“Und wenn Er alle Wege und Pässe vor dir schließt,
Zeigt einen Weg, geheim, Er, den niemand noch gekannt!”
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Zeigt einen Weg, geheim, Er, den niemand noch gekannt!”
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“—if a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don’t think, ‘oh, I love this picture because it’s universal.’ ‘I love this painting because it speaks to all mankind.’ That’s not the reason anyone loves a piece of art. It’s a secret whisper from an alleyway. Psst, you. Hey kid. Yes you.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“Ich sehe Deine Schönheit ganz,
schließ ich die Augen mein,
Und schließ' den Mund ich, trinke ich
nur immer Deinen Wein.
Verboten gilt mir das Gespräch
mit Menschen in der Welt -
Doch wenn von Dir gesprochen wird:
lang wird mein Wort dann sein!”
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schließ ich die Augen mein,
Und schließ' den Mund ich, trinke ich
nur immer Deinen Wein.
Verboten gilt mir das Gespräch
mit Menschen in der Welt -
Doch wenn von Dir gesprochen wird:
lang wird mein Wort dann sein!”
―
“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”
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“The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages;
the eye has already made love with what it sees.
The eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's shape:
the ear hears words that talk about all this.
When hearing takes place, character areas change;
but when you see, inner areas change.
If all you know about fire is what you have heard
see if the fire will agree to cook you!
Certain energies come only when you burn.
If you long for belief, sit down in the fire!
When the ear receives subtly; it turns into an eye.
But if words do not reach the ear in the chest, nothing happens.”
― Night and Sleep
the eye has already made love with what it sees.
The eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's shape:
the ear hears words that talk about all this.
When hearing takes place, character areas change;
but when you see, inner areas change.
If all you know about fire is what you have heard
see if the fire will agree to cook you!
Certain energies come only when you burn.
If you long for belief, sit down in the fire!
When the ear receives subtly; it turns into an eye.
But if words do not reach the ear in the chest, nothing happens.”
― Night and Sleep
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