from rilke's the 10th elegy

seen from United Kingdom
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Malaysia
seen from Italy
seen from United Kingdom

seen from India

seen from United States

seen from Italy

seen from United States

seen from United States

seen from Malaysia
seen from Singapore
seen from China

seen from Australia

seen from United Kingdom
seen from Netherlands

seen from United States
seen from Yemen
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
from rilke's the 10th elegy
duino elegies. rainer maria rilke
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
And we: spectators, always, everywhere, turned toward the world of objects, never outward. It fills us. Â We arrange it. Â It breaks down. We rearrange it, then break down ourselves.
â Rainer Maria Rilke, from "Eight Elegy" in Duino Elegies (Insel Verlag, 1923) (via Thoughts)
"O upturned glance: / new, warm, receding ripple of the heart â"
Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies, "The Second Elegy" (tr. Alfred Corn)
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
â Rainer Maria Rilke, âThe First Elegyâ from Duino Elegies (tr. by Stephen Mitchell)