Quotes from Delmira Agustini

Like a nocturnal flower there in the shadow I shall softly open for you.

The golden anchor beckons, the blue sail rises Like the wing of a dream unfolding to a new day. Let us depart, my muse! Beyond an anxious prow, the sea stretches itself out…

Her pearled voice quiets a fountain. Even the silence, quiets.

We love each other like this!… On my bed all in white, So white and vaporous like the flower of innocence, Like the froth of vice, Winter, Winter, Winter, We fall in a cluster of roses and lilies!

I fell asleep in the deep velvet of this wood; I dreamt divine things.

Sometimes I trembled From the horror of my abyss.