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llustration for Goethe’s Faust

~Franz Simm (1899)

i killed my god, but i need to worship.

Ich wandle angeblich

Auf Goethes Spuren.

Und Frage mich,

Ob damals die Hänge wohl leerer

Das Wasser klarer

Und die Strände einsamer waren.

Doch schön ist es allemal.

bunny-banana:

me, a german speaker, reading Schiller: god i wish i spoke this language

writemeanna:

Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. by David Ferry, from “Song of the Little Creeple at the Street Corner,”

violentwavesofemotion:

Lisel Mueller, from Alive Together: New and Selected Poems; “Imaginary Paintings,” (x)

I became like a sea that swallows down everything and sinks deeper and deeper into itself.

Georg Büchner, from Complete Plays and Prose: “Danton’s Death”
(via autumnalsonata)

I have an endless scream in me,

Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. by Robert Bly, from “The Song the Blind Man Sings,”
(via violentwavesofemotion)