#duino elegies

[iheartliquor]

from rilke's the 10th elegy

[celtos]

duino elegies. rainer maria rilke

[thepersonalwords]

Even when the lights go out, even when someone says to me: "It's over---," even when from the stage a gray gust of emptiness drifts toward me,even when not one silent ancestor sits beside me anymore---not a woman, not even the boy with the brown squint-eye:I'll sit here anyway. One can always watch.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

[dk-thrive]

And we: spectators, always, everywhere, turned toward the world of objects, never outward. It fills us.  We arrange it.  It breaks down. We rearrange it, then break down ourselves.

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from "Eight Elegy" in Duino Elegies (Insel Verlag, 1923) (via Thoughts)

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"O upturned glance: / new, warm, receding ripple of the heart –"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies, "The Second Elegy" (tr. Alfred Corn)

[lionofchaeronea]

Every angel means terror--and yet (woe's me) / I sing unto you, you all-but-fatal birds of the soul, / knowing all about you. Jeder Engel ist schrecklich. Und dennoch, weh mir, / ansing ich euch, fast tödliche Vögel der Seele, / wissend um euch. -Rainer Maria Rilke, "Duino Elegies" No. 2

[glittergroovy]

[godsopenwound]

— Rainer Maria Rilke, “The First Elegy” from Duino Elegies (tr. by Stephen Mitchell)