Author: translated by J. B. Leishman and Stephen Spender

Cited by

• William Styron (1)
  • IN: Sophie’s Choice (1979) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Who’ll show a child just as it is? Who’ll place it within its constellation, with the measure of distance in its hand? Who’ll make its death from grey bread, that grows hard – or leave it there, within the round mouth, like the choking core of a sweet apple? … Minds of murderers are easily divined. But this, though: death, the whole of death, – even before life’s begun, to hold it all so gently, and be good: this is beyond description!
    FROM: Duino Elegy (from the fourth), (1939), Book, Germany