To Music

Portrait of Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875–1926

Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.

Feelings for whom? O you the transformation of feelings into what?--: into audible landscape. You stranger: music. You heart-space grown out of us. The deepest space in us, which, rising above us, forces its way out,-- holy departure: when the innermost point in us stands outside, as the most practiced distance, as the other side of the air: pure, boundless, no longer habitable.

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  1. cristy Dominican Republic

    its a wonderful poem

  2. Hayley Conklin United States

    Abandon suroundings abandon,
    tenderness touching tenderness...
    Your oneness endlessly
    caresses itself, so they say;

    self caressing
    through its own clear reflection.
    Thus you invent the theme
    of narcissus fulfilled.
    -Rainer Maria Rilke

    He puts feelings into words, its touching

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