Unica Zurn Quotes & Sayings

As if one was mistaken in believing that love protects life. As if it were a lie that love is a blessing. — Unica Zurn

Your skin was song. Your advice was:see. — Unica Zurn

When he actually comes, he brings her a book containing white paper, as if it were a sign of her salvation, and she reads a dedication
something about people who have lost hope but start to swim in the whiteness of these leaves and perhaps find a new beginning with their first pen stroke. — Unica Zurn

It is a very beautiful day. The woman looks around and thinks: 'there cannot ever have been a spring more beautiful than this. I did not know until now that clouds could be like this. I did not know that the sky is the sea and that clouds are the souls of happy ships, sunk long ago. I did not know that the wind could be tender, like hands as they caress - what did I know - until now? — Unica Zurn

They invent a howling theatrical language through which it becomes possible to express the grief of the whole world, a language understood by no one but the two of them. — Unica Zurn

Worshiping someone requires complete passivity. To turn the principle of immobility into a rule. — Unica Zurn

But how long must she sing in the darkness until she is at last allowed out into the light of day? — Unica Zurn