Clouded Sky Quotes

“The road whinnies and rears up. The sky gallops.
You are permanent within me in this chaos.
Somewhere deep in my mind you shine forever, without
moving, silent, like the angel awed by death,
or like the insect burying itself
in the rotted heart of a tree.”
― Miklos Radnoti, Clouded Sky

“Save me, O you who love me; love me bravely.”
― Miklos Radnoti, Clouded Sky

“But don’t leave me, delicate mind!
       Don’t let me go crazy.
Sweet wounded reason, don’t
       leave me now.
   
Don’t leave me. Let me die, without fear,
       a clean lovely death,
like Empedocles, who smiled as he fell
       into the crater.

— Miklós Radnóti, “Maybe …,” Clouded Sky.( Sheep Meadow; Revised edition August 1, 2003)”
― Miklós Radnóti, Clouded Sky