[lit-ideas] Re: "Things" (Dinge) by Rainer Maria Rilke
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:49:40 -0400
Lovely, and wise.
John
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Richard Henninge <
RichardHenninge@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> **
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> Things******
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> ** **
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> One must allow things
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> Their own silent
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> Undisturbed development,
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> That comes from deep within
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> And can by nothing be forced
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> Or expedited:
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> Bearing is all—
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> And then
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> Giving birth …
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> Ripening, like the tree,
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> Which does not force its juices
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> And is content to stand
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> In the storms of spring,
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> Without fear
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> That after it no summer
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> could come.
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> It comes!
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> But it comes only to the patient ones
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> Who are there
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> As though eternity stood before them
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> So carelessly silent and wide …
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> One must be patient
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> Against the unresolved in one’s heart,
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> And try to love the questions themselves,
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> Like closed rooms,
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> And like books that have been written
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> In a very strange tongue.
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> It is a question of loving everything.
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> If one loves the questions,
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> One will perhaps live gradually
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> Without noticing it
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> One strange day
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> Into the answer.
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> ** **
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> Rainer Maria Rilke
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> ** **
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> **Translation by**
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> **Richard Henninge**
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> **University of Mainz**
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>
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