Tag Archives: Rainer Maria Rilke

Silent friend of many distances

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Michaela

Silent friend of many distances, feel how your breath enlarges all your space. Let your presence rung out like a bell into the night. What feeds upon your face grows mighty from the nourishment thus offered. Move through transformation, out … Continue reading →

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All who seek you

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Michaela

All who seek you test you. And those who find you bind you to image and gesture. I would rather sense you as the earth senses you. In my ripening ripens what you are. I need from you no tricks … Continue reading →

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How shall I hold my soul…

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Michaela

  Love-Song How shall I hold my soul so it does not touch on yours. How shall I lift it over you to other things? Ah, willingly I’d store it away with some lost thing in the dark, in some … Continue reading →

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Oh come and go

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Michaela

Oh come and go. You, almost a child still, complete for a moment the dance-move into the pure constellation of those dances in which dull orderly nature’s transiently overcome. Since she was stirred to total hearing only when Orpheus sang. … Continue reading →

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O long for the flame…

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Michaela

Will transformation. O long for the flame, where a Thing escapes you, splendid in change: that designing spirit, master of what is earth, loves only the turning-point in the form’s curve, What closes itself, to endure, already freezes: does it … Continue reading →

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Go deeply inside…

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Michaela

A reflection on a poem by Rilke In the past few weeks I have been reading Rainer Maria Rilke ( as you may very well have noticed by the choice of poems posted on this blog). Rilke was a serious … Continue reading →

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You don’t have to understand life

Posted on January 15, 2011 by Michaela

It is a special treat to listen to Rilke’s words. This is from a reading of the great Viennese actor Oskar Werner. Du musst das Leben nicht verstehen Du musst das Leben nicht verstehen, dann wird es werden wie ein … Continue reading →

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Only in our doing can we grasp you.

Posted on January 15, 2011 by Michaela

Only in our doing can we grasp you. Only with our hands can we illumine you. The mind is but a visitor; it thinks us out of our world. Each mind fabricates itself. We sense it limits, for we have … Continue reading →

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Ah, not to be cut off

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Michaela

  Ah, not to be cut off, not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars. The inner — what is it? if not the intensified sky, hurled through with birds and deep with the winds … Continue reading →

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You see, I want a lot

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Michaela

You see, I want a lot. Perhaps I want everything: the darkness that comes with every infinite fall and the shivering blaze of every step up. So many live on and want nothing, and are raised to the rank of … Continue reading →

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