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“You dark air full of summer pollen.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Seven Phallic Poems (VI), 1915.

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“You dark air full of summer pollen.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Seven Phallic Poems (VI), 1915.

  • September 09, 2022 with 53 notes

“Oh, if only I could use the voice already within you, without it passing through my mouth, to tell you the story of our love, you would be washed in a flood of bliss… for it is far more beautiful than we can even imagine it; our memory, so swollen by the manifold harvest of this year of blessings, is yet insufficient to hold the entire crop: three quarters of which, you may be sure, remain outside, on the open wind.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, letter to Merline, december 1920, from Berg-am-Irchel.

“Oh, if only I could use the voice already within you, without it passing through my mouth, to tell you the story of our love, you would be washed in a flood of bliss… for it is far more beautiful than we can even imagine it; our memory, so swollen by the manifold harvest of this year of blessings, is yet insufficient to hold the entire crop: three quarters of which, you may be sure, remain outside, on the open wind.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, letter to Merline, december 1920, from Berg-am-Irchel.

  • September 04, 2022 with 70 notes
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— Rainer Maria Rilke, “Schöne Aglaja”, Aus dem Nachlaß des Grafen C. W. (1921)

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— Rainer Maria Rilke, “Schöne Aglaja”, Aus dem Nachlaß des Grafen C. W. (1921)

  • September 03, 2022 with 7 notes
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Rainer Maria Rilke: Zwei Prager Geschichten (“Two Prague Stories”), Stuttgart, A. Bonz, 1899.

The first edition of 1000 copies printed by Bonz could only be sold partially. In 1909, the Insel-Verlag took over the remainder of the stock and had it bound more elegantly in a vellum jacket with a colored paper cover.

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Rainer Maria Rilke: Zwei Prager Geschichten (“Two Prague Stories”), Stuttgart, A. Bonz, 1899.

The first edition of 1000 copies printed by Bonz could only be sold partially. In 1909, the Insel-Verlag took over the remainder of the stock and had it bound more elegantly in a vellum jacket with a colored paper cover.

  • August 29, 2022 with 30 notes
robert-hadley: “The Garden Room Fresco at the Villa di Livia, Rome. Painted c. 30-20 BC. Photo by Marco Mansi ” “Time and again you have stood there marveling over the sheer size of the fruit, over its wholeness, its smooth and unmottled skin, and...
robert-hadley: “The Garden Room Fresco at the Villa di Livia, Rome. Painted c. 30-20 BC. Photo by Marco Mansi ” “Time and again you have stood there marveling over the sheer size of the fruit, over its wholeness, its smooth and unmottled skin, and...
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The Garden Room Fresco at the Villa di Livia, Rome. Painted c. 30-20 BC. Photo by  Marco Mansi

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“Time and again
you have stood there marveling over the sheer size of the fruit,
over its wholeness, its smooth and unmottled skin,
and that the lightheaded bird or the jealous worm under the ground had not
snatched it away from your hands.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Sonnets to Orpheus (II, 17).

  • August 27, 2022 with 785 notes
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“What fields are as fragrant as your hands?”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Paris, summer 1909.

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“What fields are as fragrant as your hands?”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Paris, summer 1909.

  • August 25, 2022 with 160 notes
allthingseurope: “Bern, Switzerland (by Miroslawa) ” “First I had a little to do with the cities: Geneva … then Bern: and that was very very lovely. An old, enduring city, still quite unspoiled in many parts, with all the characteristics of a...
allthingseurope: “Bern, Switzerland (by Miroslawa) ” “First I had a little to do with the cities: Geneva … then Bern: and that was very very lovely. An old, enduring city, still quite unspoiled in many parts, with all the characteristics of a...
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Bern, Switzerland (by Miroslawa)

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“First I had a little to do with the cities: Geneva … then Bern: and that was very very lovely. An old, enduring city, still quite unspoiled in many parts, with all the characteristics of a dependable and active citizenry, even to quite a high self-assurance expressing itself in like-minded houses that toward the street bear themselves with a certain reserve above their arcades, but toward the Aar in their pretty garden fronts are of more communicative and open mind. Luckily I had Bernese friends there with fine old inherited houses of this sort, and that removed at one stroke the hotel atmosphere for me and helped me very much to experience the nature of the country, even where, as now once more displaced among strangers, I have to find myself to rights again from their level.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, letter to the Countess Aline Dietrichstein, from Soglio (Bergell, Graubünden) August 6, 1919.

  • August 24, 2022 with 836 notes

Und unten hellt und verdunkelt / deine nächtliche sich, die heilig erschrockene Landschaft, / die du in Abschieden fühlst.

“And underneath brightens and darkens the nocturnal landscape, the holy, the terrified landscape, which you feel in departures.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, To Hölderlin (from Uncollected Poems, translated by Stephen Mitchell).

Und unten hellt und verdunkelt / deine nächtliche sich, die heilig erschrockene Landschaft, / die du in Abschieden fühlst.

“And underneath brightens and darkens the nocturnal landscape, the holy, the terrified landscape, which you feel in departures.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, To Hölderlin (from Uncollected Poems, translated by Stephen Mitchell).

  • August 21, 2022 with 40 notes
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Envelope from Rainer Maria Rilke to the writer and editor Leopold von Schlözer, at Schloss Winkel, Meran (Tyrol, Austria), written in black ink and postmarked Paris, March 26, 1913. Rilke and Schlözer met for the first time in Capri in 1907.

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Envelope from Rainer Maria Rilke to the writer and editor Leopold von Schlözer, at Schloss Winkel, Meran (Tyrol, Austria), written in black ink and postmarked Paris, March 26, 1913. Rilke and Schlözer met for the first time in Capri in 1907.

  • August 15, 2022 with 27 notes

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