Rebecca

“I'm not satisfied with the way in which people in the party usually write
articles. They are all so conventional, so wooden, so cut-and-dry....
Our scribblings are usually not lyrics, but whirrings, without color or
resonance, like the tone of an engine wheel. I believe that the cause lies
in the fact that when people write, they forget for the most part to dig
deeply into themselves and to feel the whole import and truth of what
they are writing. I believe that ever time, every day, in every article you
must live through the thing again, you must feel your way tugh it,
and then fresh words-coming fom: the heart and going to the heartwould occur to express the old fmiliar thing. But you get so used to a
truth that you rattle off the deepest and greatest tings as if they were
the "Our Fater" I firmly intend, when I write, never to forget to be enthusiastic about what I write and to commune with myself.”
― Rosa Luxemburg, The Essential Rosa Luxemburg: Reform or Revolution / The Mass Strike

“People for the most part pass by the loveliest things in life without paying attention.”
― Rosa Luxemburg, The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg

“I feel, in a word, the need as [Wladyslaw] Heine would say, to “say something great” … I feel that within me there is maturing a completely new and original form which dispenses with the usual formulas and patterns and breaks them down … I feel with utter certainty that something is there, that something will be born.*”
― Rosa Luxemburg, The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I: Economic Writings 1

“And in the darkness I smile at life, as if I were the possessor of charm which would enable me to transform all that is evil and tragical into serenity and happiness. But when I search my mind for the cause of this joy, I find there is no cause, and can only laugh at myself.”
― Rosa Luxemburg, Letters from Prison to Sophie Liebknecht: July 1916–October 1918