Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Georg Trakl

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Austrian poet Georg Trakl.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Georg Trakl was an Austrian poet and the brother of the pianist Grete Trakl. He is considered one of the most important Austrian Expressionists. He is perhaps best known for his poem "Grodek", which he wrote shortly before he died of a cocaine overdose.

Austrian - Poet | February 3, 1887 - November 3, 1914

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The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.

Georg Trakl

Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.

Georg Trakl

For whoever is lonely there is a tavern.

Georg Trakl

Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.

Georg Trakl

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

Georg Trakl

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

Georg Trakl

The guilt of newborns is immense.

Georg Trakl

The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.

Georg Trakl

Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.

Georg Trakl

Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.

Georg Trakl

I do not have easy days at home now and I drift between fear and helplessness in sunny rooms where it is unspeakably cold. Strange shudders of transformation, bodily experienced to the point of vulnerability, visions of mysteries until the certainty of having died, ecstasies to the point of stony petrifaction, and a continuation of dreaming sad dreams.

Georg Trakl

Cold metal walks across my forehead, spiders search for my heart. It is a light that goes out in my mouth.

Georg Trakl

Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Georg Trakl

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