Wednesday, March 25, 2009

RAINER MARIA RILKE

    You, you only, exist


    You, you only, exist.
    We pass away, till at last,
    our passing is so immense
    that you arise: beautiful moment,
    in all your suddenness,
    arising in love, or enchanted
    in the contraction of work.

    To you I belong, however time may
    wear me away. From you to you
    I go commanded. In between
    the garland is hanging in chance; but if you
    take it up and up and up: look:
    all becomes festival!



    Translated by Stephen Mitchell

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