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Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
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“I have even begun to speak in foreign tongues roaming like a nomad in my own town.”
― Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
― Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
“You were supposed to say, I
am wholly yours, nothing
but these words.”
― Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
am wholly yours, nothing
but these words.”
― Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
“In the house of shadows where the legend rises the deciphering begins”
― Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
― Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
“Sterben wir wirklich nur einmal”
― Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
― Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
“Open these pages, he says,
and step smartly
into hell.”
― Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
and step smartly
into hell.”
― Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
“But the certitude nonetheless
That a human heart
Can be crushed.”
― Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
That a human heart
Can be crushed.”
― Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
“Only in the wasteland does Rapunzel find bliss.”
― Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
― Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
“Sadness exists-one's own
never the other of those who suffer.”
― Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
never the other of those who suffer.”
― Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
“Between Victorian patterns
and roses, life was a matter
of death and cast its shadows.”
― Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
and roses, life was a matter
of death and cast its shadows.”
― Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
“Sudden cardiac
death waves
from the other side
of the abyss.”
― Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
death waves
from the other side
of the abyss.”
― Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
“Letter by letter
comes a language
you do not understand.”
― Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
comes a language
you do not understand.”
― Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001