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The Duino Elegies
The Duino Elegies | Rainer Maria Rilke
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Rilke's great cycle of ten elegies, perhaps his most profound poetic achievement, had its inception on the morning of January 21, 1912, but was interrupted by the First World War and not completed until a decade later. The Duino Elegies are not only the result of an extraordinary kind of contact with the unseen world; they are an attempt to understand that world in its holistic relationship to the visible, tangible world. This powerful rendering of the cycle is a product of the collaboration between a poet, Norris, and a Germanist, Keele.
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Rehesina
The Duino Elegies | Rainer Maria Rilke

Do not think that fate means more than the thick wilderness of childhood.

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Rehesina
The Duino Elegies | Rainer Maria Rilke

For it would seem, that all things wrap themselves

In secrecy against us. See: the trees

Exist; the houses stand, that shelter us.

We only, with a light exchange of greeting,

pass all things by, and everything conspires

Against us, to keep silence; half in shame,

Perhaps, and half in hope unspeakable.