4 Quotes & Sayings By Georg Trakl

Georg Trakl was born in the town of Stockerau, Austria. He died at the age of twenty-nine in 1898, during a typhus epidemic that swept through the area. He is one of the most important poets of Austrian literature. Trakl's poetry is characterized by duality, tension, and an intense lyricism, which has led to his being labeled as "a poet of tension."

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In an old family album Ever again you return, Melancholy, O meekness of the solitary soul. A golden day glows and expires. Humbly the patient man surrenders to pain Ringing with melodious sound and soft madness. Look! There's the twilight. Night returns once more and a mortal thing laments And another suffers in sympathy. Shuddering under autumn stars Yearly the head is bowed deeper.- Georg Trakl (1887-1914) . Georg Trakl
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A world without fairy tales and myths would be as drab as life without music Georg Trakl
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I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods. Georg Trakl