Poetry
Wir sollen nicht wissen, warum
dieses und jenes uns meistert;
wirkliches Lebenis stumm,
nur, daß es uns begeistert,
macht uns mit ihm vertraut
We are not to know why
this and that masters us;
real life makes no reply,
only that it enraptures us,
makes us familiar with it
Rainer Maria Rilke, May, 1924 (Translation by John J. L. Mood)
Saturday, June 07, 2003
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