Carmen von Rohr
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“Be the voice of night and Florida in my ear.
Use dusky words and dusky images.
Darken your speech.
Speak, even, as if I did not hear you speaking,
But spoke for you perfectly in my thoughts,
Conceiving words,
As the night conceives the sea-sounds in silence,
And out of their droning sibilants makes
A serenade.”
― The Collected Poems
Use dusky words and dusky images.
Darken your speech.
Speak, even, as if I did not hear you speaking,
But spoke for you perfectly in my thoughts,
Conceiving words,
As the night conceives the sea-sounds in silence,
And out of their droning sibilants makes
A serenade.”
― The Collected Poems
“Part of love is preparing for death... Afterwards comes the madness. And then the loneliness... [People say] you'll come out of it... And you do come out of it, that's true. But you don't come out of it like a train coming out of a tunnel, bursting through the Downs into sunshine and that swift, rattling descent to the Channel; you come out of it as a gull comes out of an oil slick; you are tarred and feathered for life.”
― Levels of Life
― Levels of Life
“No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.”
― Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul
― Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul
“It might be if he had not appeared the way he did appear that day she would never have looked so closely at him, but the time people come makes a difference.”
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“When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.”
― Blindness
― Blindness
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