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I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods. — Georg Trakl

Poem

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

In the original German

Gottes Schweigen Trank ich aus dem Brunnen des Hains.

Georg Trakl
1912
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Topic
SilenceStillnessSolitudeThe forest
Statement type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Medium
Poem
Time
1912
Person
Georg Trakl
Provenance
Current citation
Trakl, Georg. "De profundis." To the Silenced, translated by Will Stone. Arc Publications, 2005.
Original citation
Trakl, Georg. "De profundis." Gedichte. Contumax, 1913.

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