#Duino Elegies

[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

#quote #quotes #Rainer Maria Rilke #Duino Elegies #literature #poetry #German #German language #translation #German translation

[sprachgitter]

Look, it happens to me, that at times my hands become aware of each other, or that my worn face hides itself in them. That gives me a slight sensation. But who would dare to exist only for that?

—Rainer Maria Rilke, The Second Elegy from Duino Elegies tr. A.S. Kline

#poetry #rainer maria rilke #duineser elegien #translation #duino elegies #on longing

[celtos]

rainer maria rilke. duino elegies

#spring #the duino elegies #duino elegies #rilke #rainer maria rilke #poetry #words

[u2fangirlie-blog]

Crowley Reads The Duino Elegies by Rilke

Crowley reads "The Duino Elegies" by Rainer Maria Rilke. He has a first edition copy signed by Rilke. Crowley annotated the poems in red ink. Some pages are tear stained. He keeps the book locked in a safe where no one else will see it. Hastur, Beelzebub, and Shax would make fun of him if they knew. Crowley tried to discuss Rilke with Aziraphale, but the angel doesn't understand "The Duino Elegies." It's not his taste in poetry. The pain and yearning are beyond Aziraphale's personal experience. That is all. I won't be taking questions. Thanks for coming to my talk.

Part of the First Elegy - Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell, translator

Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? and even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.

P.S.: If you have never read "The Duino Elegies," you can read it in the original German, or I recommend the English translation by Stephen Mitchell. It is superior to other translations.

#good omens #crowley #aziraphale #duino elegies #rainer maria rilke #every angel is terrifying #neil gaiman

[wellconstructedsentences]

what we're now striving for was once nearer and truer and attached to us with infinite tenderness. Here all is distance there it was breath . . .

Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke

#duino elegies #rainer maria rilke #poetry

[dk-thrive]

You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from "Duino Elegies (Ninth Elegy)" in "Praise of Mortality: Rilke’s Duino Elegies & Sonnets to Orpheus" translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy (Riverhead Books, 2005) (via Alive on All Channels)

#feel #feeling #Rainer Maria Rilke #Duino Elegies #breath #live #life #emotional #sensitive

[bones-ivy-breath]

Duino Elegies: The First Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke (tr. A. Poulin, Jr.)

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Weren't you always distracted by hope, as if all this promised you a lover?

#duino elegies #rainer maria rilke #quote #typography #literature #poetry #aesthetic #dark academia #light academia #a. poulin #original post #hope #love #love poetry #european literature #european poetry

[maracllea]

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

something something Snow’s look, the “angelic curls”, blue eyes - especially the importance and nod to the eyes by Tigris (you look just like your father). Him using his looks to charm people. All that against the reality of his personality & how terrifying he really is, ‘snow always lands on top’.

#even post movie people fall for the looks #the hunger games #no really - even tho we cant hear/see the inner thoughts he has in the books #the eyes are soo telling #it really got to me #im just rambling #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #suzanne collins #rainer maria rilke #duino elegies #thg series #tbosas #president snow #Coriolanus Snow

[thelibraryiscool]

Yes--the springtimes needed you. Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant past, or as you walked under an open window, a violin yielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission. But could you accomplish it? Weren't you always distracted by expectation, as if every event announced a beloved?

Rainer Maria Rilke, The First Elegy (trans. Stephen Mitchell)

Ja, die Frühlinge brauchten dich wohl. Es muteten manche Sterne dir zu, daß du sie spürtest. Es hob sich eine Woge heran im Vergangenen, oder da du vorüberkamst am geöffneten Fenster, gab eine Geige sich hin. Das alles war Auftrag. Aber bewältigtest du’s? Warst du nicht immer noch von Erwartung zerstreut, als kündigte alles eine Geliebte dir an?

#i had only ever read them in bits and pieces i feel like it's time #the bilingual copy i have has cf macintyre's translation though not this one #rainer maria rilke #duino elegies #poetry #quote #spring #allie reads

[yorgunherakles]

ağıyor soluğum göğe, çıkıyor canım, gel ölüyorum...

ovidius - aşk sanatı

#kitap #edebiyat #blogger #felsefe #kitaplar #blog #kitap kurdu #charles bukowski #şiir #ovidius #aşk sanatı #erich fromm #sevme sanatı #simone de beauvoir #love letters #hamlet #william shakespeare #soneler #sone #rainer maria rilke #duino elegies #duino ağıtları #ümit yaşar oğuzcan #paul celan #ingeborg bachmann #ahmet erhan #lale müldür #birhan keskin #şiir blog #federico garcía lorca

[christreginlave]

#duino elegies #rainer maria rilke #poem #poetry #love #art #letter #letters #Deutsch

[sprachgitter]

Fling the emptiness in your arms out into the spaces we breathe; perhaps the birds will feel the increase of air with more passionate flight.

— Rainer Maria Rilke, "The First Elegy", Duino Elegies, tr. Edward Snow

#rainer maria rilke #poetry #duino elegies

[celtos]

rainer maria rilke. duino elegies

#matthew barton’s translation #rilke #rainer maria rilke #duino elegies #poetry #words #hide

[innervoiceartblog]

"Everywhere transience is plunging into the depths of Being… It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again, “invisibly,” inside us. We are the bees of the invisible. We wildly collect the honey of the visible, to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible."

—Rainer Maria Rilke, writing to his Polish translator about writing the "Duino Elegies"

~ 'Melissae (Bee Priestess) Dreaming' - Mixed Media on Canvas by Raine © Inner Voice Art™

#Rainer Maria Rilke #Rilke #writing #Duino Elegies #Melissae #Bee Priestess #Melissae Dreaming #Bee Dreaming #Mixed Media #Raine © Inner Voice Art™ #bees #bee speaks #art and soul #myth #heart and soul

[master-fuckup]

A Year With Rilke, 2009.

#a year with rilke #rilke #poetry #lit #translated poetry #anita barrows #joanna macy #rainer maria rilke #duino elegies #book #poem #december

[nochilleftb3hine]

#rainer maria rilke #poetry #humanity #nature #angels #animals #strength #beauty #terror #consciousness #balance #books #lit #quote #duino elegies