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Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke
Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke










Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke

Suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed Hierarchies? and even if one of them pressed me Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels’ Whisper to the silent earth: I’m flowing. That rounds your senses in their magic ring,Īnd if the earthly no longer knows your name, In this immeasurable darkness, be the power If drinking is bitter, change yourself to wine. What is the deepest loss that you have suffered? Grows mighty from the nourishment thus offered. Joyfully add yourself, and cancel the count. To all that is used-up, and to all the muffled and dumbĬreatures in the world’s full reserve, the unsayable sums, So that, this once, you may give it your perfect assent. The infinite source of your own most intense vibration, Here, in the realm of decline, among momentary days,īe the crystal cup that shattered even as it rang.īe - and yet know the great void where all things begin, Into the seamless life proclaimed in your song. That only by wintering through it will your heart survive.īe forever dead in Eurydice - more gladly arise True singing is a different breath, aboutīe ahead of all parting, as though it already wereīehind you, like the winter that has just gone by.įor among these winters there is one so endlessly winter Was forced wide open by your own voice - learn It is not your loving, even if your mouth The earth, the stars, into us? Young man, Not wooing any grace that can be achieved īut when can we be real? When does he pour Song, as you have taught it, is not desire, Of heart-roads, there is no temple for Apollo. But will you tell me howĪ man can enter through the lyre’s strings?

Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke

Where is she vanishing? … A girl almost ….Ī god can do it. This theme before your song consumes itself? Where is her death now? Ah, will you discover So deeply that I could touch them, meadows in spring:Īll wonders that had ever seized my heart. The awesome trees, the distances I had felt And through her green veils shone forth radiantlyĪnd slept there.












Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke