RILKE | March: The Time in Stones
Glacier Landscape, the Alps "...inner worlds now
the most practiced /
   of distances, as
the other side of thin air:
pure,
immense
no longer habitable."

from To Music, a poem
by Rainer Maria Rilke 


This week, an image called
Glacier Landscape.
 
Also: a new translation
from the German.




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The guest poem for this week is a new English translation from the work of the German
language poet,
Rainer Maria Rilke (from the Rilke website, a concise hyperlinked biography).


The Time in Stones

'Ik droomde, dat ik langzaam leefde...
langzamer dan de oudste steen.' *


   M. Vasalis


"I dreamed that I lived slowly...
more slowly than the oldest stone."



Erinnerung

Und du wartest, erwartest das Eine,
das dein Leben unendlich vermehrt;
das Mächtige, Ungemeine,
das Erwachen der Steine,
Tiefen, dir zugekehrt.
Es dämmern im Bücherständer
die Bände in Gold und Braun;
und du denkst an durchfahrene Länder,
an Bilder, an die Gewänder
wiederverlorener Fraun.

Und da weißt du auf einmal: das war es.
Du erhebst dich, und vor dir steht
eines vergangenen Jahres
Angst und Gestalt und Gebet.


aus:
Das Buch der Bilder
Remembrance

And you wait, expecting that one thing
that your life endlessly shall multiply;
that one powerful, immense thing,
the awakening of stones,
depths, coming back to you.
Volumes of gold and brown emerge
as dawn out of the bookshelves;
and you reflect upon lands traveled through,
on images, on the garments
of women lost once again.

And then suddenly you realize: that was it.
You rise up and before you stands
the fear and shape and prayer
of a year gone by.

(tr. Cliff Crego)



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THIS IS a line by line, or phrase by phrase,
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work to capture something of the rhythm, resosance
and sound of the original German.



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See other recent additions of new English translations of
Rilke's poetry, together with
featured photographs at:
(26) March: The Music in Things

(25) February: Images from the Periphery of Time
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See also a selection of recent Picture/Poem "Rilke in translation" features at the Rilke Archive.

See also another website
by Cliff Crego:
The Poetry of
Rainer Maria Rilke
a presentation of 80 of the
best poems of Rilke in
both German and
new English translations
:
biography, links, posters


See
also:

new
"Straight roads,
Slow rivers,
Deep clay."
A collection of contemporary Dutch poetry
in English translation, with commentary
and photographs
by Cliff Crego


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