Rilke's poetry | Rilke's poetry
Nov.29.2011
“I’m a spirit that has come a long way. Try to destroy me, you’ll find I’m permanent. I’ll live on …./…. I am the goddess of all things. I am about to give birthto beauty, migrants, savage light of every kind. /….“
~Alice Notley, from Eurynome’s Sandals, in The Best...
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Dec.07.2008
Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting
still has a shape in the kindgdom of transformation.
When something's let go of, it circles; and though
we are rarely the center of the circle,
it draws around us its unbroken, marvelous curve.
First ,when I saw the poem I thought Rilke...
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Dec.06.2008
"In the dusk you notice the book shelveswith their volumes in gold and in brown;and you think of far lands you journeyed,of pictures and of shimmering gownsworn by women you conquered and lost.And it comes to you all of a sudden:That was it! And you arise, for you areaware of a year in your...
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