"Tu es le pain et le couteau. Le cristal et le vin."

"I know I can opt to go along with death But I decide to wake myself up, the roller blinds are dirty And outside peopl…"

"I get up and watch the end of the slow film with him, the dénouement is a damp squib."

"A group of poems was found along with Hadewijch's manuscripts, written in what appears to be another hand and bearing…"

"In her later poems, Hadewijch uses striking language and metaphysical themes that were to be further developed by the…"

"Ruysbroeck derived much from the mystic Hadewijch, who had viewed the relationship of the soul to God as similar to t…"

"Little is known about Hadewijch, one of the greatest women of the "New Mysticism". Her intensely personal writings re…"

"It is difficult to discover precise details about this Flemish woman mystic who has left us a considerable body of wr…"

"Hadewijch used elements of the poetic tradition of troubadour poetry, which celebrated romantic love, to construct he…"

"And in this unity into which I was taken and where I was enlightened, I understood this Being and knew it more clearl…"