Decline is also a form of voluptuousness, just like growth. Autumn is just as sensual as springtime. There is as much greatness in dying as in procreation.

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Iwan Goll was a 19th-century French german poet. Yvan Goll was a French-German poet who was bilingual and wrote in both French and German. He had close ties to both German expressionism and to French surrealism. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Death — Contemplations on mortality, loss, and the legacy we leave

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