I was trying to understand beauty.
How silly of me. One elegy after another,I realized you submit to beauty and its
consequences( which hopefully last in you, or so you wish).

And complete surrender is a journey on a bridge of understanding with cables of faith dangling and holding them. Once over, you

In "Duino Elegies" it seems as if Rilke is explaining the meaning of his life indirectly to God through divine messengers the presence of whom we can scarcely sense.

The 10 elegies succeed in finding the world in a word, as William H. Gass advised was the objective of the most earnest poets. Rilke's

Късчета леденокристална печал, звъняща във всемира - така го усещам Рилке. Той говори, преизпълнен с алюзии и загадки, изплашен и същевременно привлечен от смъртта и абсолюта, и все пак нещо отвъд думите му е изконно разбираемо.

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”…На чувството не познаваме
контура, а само туй, що вае го отвън.

Кой

Οι ελεγείες του Ντουίνο, Rainer Maria Rilke εκδ. Πατάκη, μτφ Μαρία Τοπάλη

Όπως ακριβώς το είχα φανταστεί.

Ξεκινώντας τον Ρίλκε ανορθόδοξα από το «Γράμματα σε έναν νέο ποιητή και γράμματα σε μια νέα γυναίκα» και όχι από το κυρίως έργο του, τον είχα φανταστεί αποσυρμένο σε ένα κάστρο, μονωμένο από τα ε

These poems blew my mind, kicked my ass and sent chills down my back. Never have poems so resonated with that dark secret place I keep hidden from view. But these poems threw back the curtain and shined with angelic vengeance upon my internal cowardice. And this, really, is what I want poems to do: