--from "Letters to a Young Poet" (1934) by Rainer Maria Rilke, who died on this day in 1926.
Letters written over a period of several years on the vocation of writing by a poet whose greatest work was still to come. READ an excerpt here: http://knopfdoubleday.com/b…/154358/letters-to-a-young-poet/
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke died in Montreux, Switzerland on this day in 1926 (aged 51).
"Growing Old" by Rainer Marie Rilke
In some summers there is so much fruit,
the peasants decide not to reap any more.
Not having reaped you, oh my days,
my nights, have I let the slow flames
of your lovely produce fall into ashes?
the peasants decide not to reap any more.
Not having reaped you, oh my days,
my nights, have I let the slow flames
of your lovely produce fall into ashes?
My nights, my days, you have borne so much!
All your branches have retained the gesture
of that long labor you are rising from:
my days, my nights. Oh my rustic friends!
All your branches have retained the gesture
of that long labor you are rising from:
my days, my nights. Oh my rustic friends!
I look for what was so good for you.
Oh my lovely, half-dead trees,
could some equal sweetness still
stroke your leaves, open your calyx?
Oh my lovely, half-dead trees,
could some equal sweetness still
stroke your leaves, open your calyx?
Ah, no more fruit! But one last time
bloom in fruitless blossoming
without planning, without reckoning,
as useless as the powers of millenia.
bloom in fruitless blossoming
without planning, without reckoning,
as useless as the powers of millenia.
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Poems: Rilke contains poems from The Book of Images; New Poems; Requiem for a Friend; Poems, 1906-1926; French Poems; The Life of Mary; Sonnets to Orpheus; The Duino Elegies; Letters to a Young Poet; and an index of first lines.
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