5 Quotes by Gertrud von le Fort

  • Author Gertrud von le Fort
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    If the sign of the woman is "Be it done unto me," which means readiness to conceive or, when expressed in religious terms, the will to be blessed, then there is always distress when the woman no longer wills to conceive, no longer wills to be blessed. (This does not only apply in the biological sense).

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    Not alone is the child born through the mother, but the mother also is born through the child.

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    The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.

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    It is only the city dweller spending his weekends in the country who goes into raptures about nature; the farmer breathes in it. It is only the uncreative critic who is given to much talking about art. For the artist himself, his art is speech sufficient. It is only a motherless time that cries out for a mother, and a deeply unmotherly age that can point to the mother as a demand of the time, for it is precisely the mother who is timeless, the same in all epochs and among all peoples.

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