György Ligeti - Lux Aeterna
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Ritual is an instrument of the sacred. Every innovation is a profanation.

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Helen Lundeberg, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘷𝘦, 1947.

What has been lost
is the secret of secrecy

— Charles Olson

Karl Kraus (translated by Albert Bloch)

If there were a scale for mysteries, sadness would belong to a group of infinite mysteries, mysteries without limit, inexhaustible.

— E. M. Cioran (translated by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston)

Edgar Allan Poe

Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by J. B. Leishman)

Vainly I dug for a perfect sky,
Piling a barrier all around.
Then one black night, lifting a heavy
Tile, I crushed the skeletal void!

— Musō Soseki (translated by Lucien Stryk & Takashi Ikemoto)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Alexander Blok (translated by Alex Miller)

Do not despair, the hosts
surging beneath the Walls,
(no more than I) are ghosts;

do not bewail the Fall,
the scene is empty and I am alone

— H. D.

Philippe Sarde's soundtrack to Roman Polanski's The Tenant (1976).
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He whose bride is a ghost cannot live. Even though in his blood there existed the force of a life of one hundred years, that force must quickly perish.

— Lafcadio Hearn

Earth where I fall asleep, space where I awaken, who will appear when you are no longer there? (𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘐 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 is of nearly infinite heat to me).

— René Char (translated by Nancy Kline)

Fairfield Porter, 𝘖𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘐𝘐, 1974.

Ezra Pound

In this chthonian world the only thing of importance is orthography and punctuation.

— Henry Miller, 𝘛𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳

Richard Aldington