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“I repeated: come with me, as if I were dying,
and no one saw in my mouth the moon that was bleeding,
no one saw the blood that was rising into the silence.
Oh love, now let us forget the star with thorns!”
― 100 Love Sonnets
and no one saw in my mouth the moon that was bleeding,
no one saw the blood that was rising into the silence.
Oh love, now let us forget the star with thorns!”
― 100 Love Sonnets
“One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness.”
― An Unofficial Rose
― An Unofficial Rose
“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
“We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,
Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.”
― Festus: A Poem
Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.”
― Festus: A Poem
“Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.”
― The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
― The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
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