gedankenspaziergang

If you want to kill yourself, kill what you don’t like. I had an old self that I killed. You can kill yourself too, but that doesn’t mean you got to stop living.

Everyone writes about the Moon and the Sun being lovers but I don’t think that’s true. Maybe at some point they were, but now they just go on sort of like we do: aware of each other’s existence, fully knowing one cannot exist without the other, but wishing it didn’t have to be that way.

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.

I think a lot of art is trying to make someone love you.

We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

Ein Krieger des Lichts achtet auf den Blick eines Kindes, weil Kinder die Welt ohne Bitterkeit sehen können. Wenn er wissen möchte, ob ein Mensch sein Vertrauen verdient, schaut er ihm mit den Augen eines Kindes ins Gesicht.

Nur in den Träumen kann ich triumphieren.

If you want to kill yourself, kill what you don’t like. I had an old self that I killed. You can kill yourself too, but that doesn’t mean you got to stop living.

My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.

Der, den ich liebe Hat mir gesagt Daß er mich braucht. Darum Gebe ich auf mich acht Sehe auf meinen Weg und Fürchte von jedem Regentropfen Daß er mich erschlagen könnte.