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Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001 QUOTES

Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001 QUOTES

1 " I have even begun to speak in foreign tongues roaming like a nomad in my own town. "

― W.G. Sebald , Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001

2 " You were supposed to say, I
am wholly yours, nothing
but these words. "

― W.G. Sebald , Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001

3 " In the house of shadows where the legend rises the deciphering begins "

― W.G. Sebald , Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001

4 " Letter by letter
comes a language
you do not understand. "

― W.G. Sebald , Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001

5 " Sudden cardiac
death waves
from the other side
of the abyss. "

― W.G. Sebald , Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001

6 " Between Victorian patterns
and roses, life was a matter
of death and cast its shadows. "

― W.G. Sebald , Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001

7 " Sadness exists-one's own
never the other of those who suffer. "

― W.G. Sebald , Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001

8 " Only in the wasteland does Rapunzel find bliss. "

― W.G. Sebald , Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001

9 " But the certitude nonetheless
That a human heart
Can be crushed. "

― W.G. Sebald , Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001

10 " Open these pages, he says,
and step smartly
into hell. "

― W.G. Sebald , Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001

11 " Sterben wir wirklich nur einmal "

― W.G. Sebald , Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001