DIPPER FALLS, mountain spring, the Eagle Cap Wilderness
On the road in the American Northwest. [ click photo for next . . . ]
DIPPER FALLS, mountain spring, the Eagle Cap Wilderness
On the road in the American Northwest. [ click photo for next . . . ]
[It's possible I'm moving through the hard veins
of heavy mountains...]
—an early poem from the German,
by Rainer Maria Rilke
It's possible I'm moving through the hard veins
of heavy mountains, like the ore does, alone;
I'm already so deep inside, I see no end in sight,
and no distance: everything is getting near
and everything getting near is turning to stone.I still can't see very far into suffering,—
so this vast darkness makes me small;
are you the one: make yourself powerful, break in:
so that your whole being may happen to me,
and to you may happen, my whole cry.
Rainer Maria Rilke (tr. Cliff Crego)
[Vielleicht, daß ich durch schwere Berge gehe...]
Vielleicht, daß ich durch schwere Berge gehe
in harten Adern, wie ein Erz allein;
und bin so tief, daß ich kein Ende sehe
und keine Ferne: alles wurde Nähe
und alle Nähe wurde Stein.Ich bin ja noch kein Wissender im Wehe,—
so macht mich dieses große Dunkel klein;
bist Du es aber: mach dich schwer, brich ein:
daß deine ganze Hand an mir geschehe
und ich an dir mit meinem ganzen Schrein.
Rainer Maria Rilke (Das Stundenbuch (1899 - 1903) /
The Book of Hours)
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