and we recognize ourselves in these poems, but in a way that goes beyond the power of words to make clear. As Wittgenstein put it, "I do not understand [[Georg] Trakl's poems]; but their tone pleases me."
Here's "De Profundis," one of my favorite of Trakl's individual poems:
from Powells: Review-A-Day: The Poems of Georg Trakl
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