phosphorus-writing

Updated: May 1, 2025

Is it the nightly pressure of helplessness or is it the exalting separation from the turmoil of life that veiling of the world, in which for the soul nothing more remains but souls; is it therefore that the letters in which the loved name stands written on our spirit appear, like phosphorus-writing, by night, in fire, while by day in their cloudy traces they but smoke?

- The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 : Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes