“A drunkard is a dead man,
And all dead men are drunk.”

(W.B. Yeats in A drunken man’s praise of sobriety)
Eindhoven (NL)

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“Musik: Atem der Statuen. Vielleicht:
Stille der Bilder. Du Sprache wo Sprachen
enden. Du Zeit
die senkrecht steht auf der Richtung
vergehender Herzen”

(R.M. Rilke in An die Musik)
Tongeren (B)

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“My hope is not yet lost,
o sweetly beloved homeland,
of finding on your soil
a little corner to settle down in
before my end arrives…”

(From a Hebrew folksong Song of a worker)
Liège (B)

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“Sammle dich und kehre ein,
Lerne schauen, lerne lesen!
Sammle dich – und Welt wird Schein.
Sammle dich – und Schein wird Wesen.”

(H. Hesse in Junger Novize im Zen-Kloster, no. 2)
Maastricht (NL)

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