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Georg Trakl
 
Date of birth: 03 February 1887
Date of death: 03 November 1914
Country Of Origin: Austria
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Poet

Biography:
   Georg Trakl (February 3, 1887 – November 3, 1914) was a pre-eminent Austrian poet.

Trakl was born and lived the first 18 years of his life in Salzburg. His father, Tobias, was a dealer in hardware, while his mother, Maria, was a housewife with strong interests in art and music.

Trakl attended a Catholic elementary school, although his parents were Protestants. He matriculated in 1897 at the Salzburg Staatsgymnasium, where he studied Latin, Greek, and mathem .... (More...)
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" Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs. "

Georg Trakl
" Despair, night in the grieving senses. "

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" Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters. "

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" For whoever is lonely there is a tavern. "

Georg Trakl
" Frost and smoke. A white shirt of stars burns your worn-out shoulders, and God's vultures tear at your metallic heart. "

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" I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods. "

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" Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower. "

Georg Trakl
" Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls. "

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" The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart. "

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" The guilt of newborns is immense. "

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" The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels. "

Georg Trakl
" When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood. "

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