Quotes from Gertrud Kolmar

out of darkness i come, a woman. and on i go and on.

I am the dumb, the wild, the things now dead / That men have killed for being mute and strange

She filled herself entirely with the molten dark.

You hear me speak. But do you hear me feel?

She, however, stood and said nothing. / Small, unnoticed, she stood in the crowd, listened, and said / nothing.

Come. For the sun has crept down in its cave; its warm red breath has blown away.

I was never one of those who collect many smaller joys to make a larger happiness as though putting together a bouquet of flowers. For me there had to be the one great ecstasy, the perfect happiness, a sun which then poured forth its rays of lesser delights. This sun may be at times clouded over, shrouded in fog, hidden by night; yet I know that it remains there, steadfast—a fixed star and not a wandering planet.