Behind the blameless trees
old fate slowly builds
her mute countenance.
Wrinkles grow there . . .
What a bird shrieks here
springs there like a gasp of warning
from a soothsayer's hard mouth.
And the soon-to-be lovers
smile on each other, not yet knowing farewell,
and round about them, like a constellation,
their destiny casts
its nightly spell.
Still to come, it does not reach out to them,
it remains
a phantom
floating in its heavenly course.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Check out German Expressionism (and the idea behind it to understand it)
Gottfried Benn's Little Aster is my favorite so far.
Also, I just love The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, I have it on my wall
Niniela stated: source post
Check out German Expressionism (and the idea behind it to understand it)
Gottfried Benn's Little Aster is my favorite so far.
Also, I just love The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, I have it on my wall
Morbiiiiiiiid! Quoth the raven..
I can appreciate the Expressionists but I'm not so much a fan, as I am of the futuristic Cubism. Your mention of Poe makes me think of Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz. Her parents are wonderfully ostentatious. But she hates her life.
Peep that. And secondly, the afterlife (and also why you should never consider suicide) scene of Beetlejuice, in spite of the fact that I haven't seen the movie in years is forever etched in my mind. Life can be beautiful.
(Lydia Deetz Suicide Note)