Rilke, The Sonnets to Orpheus (II, 13)
Excerpt from The Sonnets to Orpheus: II, 13
Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were
behind you, like the winter that has just gone by.
For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter
that only by wintering through it will your heart survive.
Be forever dead in Eurydice–more gladly arise
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by Mia on 10:55 pm, January 29, 2008 in echoes none spoke