03-06-2014, 02:53 AM
Hi. I'm glad that one speaks to you as well. I also like the quote you mentioned.
What I was personally drawn to in Rilke was the mesmeric quality of his poetic voice, which is amazing considering that I read him in translation. I found the Stephen Mitchell translations to be the best in this regard so far. Maybe there have been even better ones since. I don't know.
What I adore about the Ninth Elegy is his attempt to give poetic credence/legitimacy to what might be called the transcendent. In this age we live in, I find it almost impossible to do so, perhaps because I have so taken to heart and mind all that we have come to learn of this existence of ours. To put it starkly, modern scientific knowledge/discoveries, if really taken to heart and mind, have posed incredible challenges/restrictions to the modern imagination in this regard, at least an imagination to be taken seriously.
Anyway...best to you.
What I was personally drawn to in Rilke was the mesmeric quality of his poetic voice, which is amazing considering that I read him in translation. I found the Stephen Mitchell translations to be the best in this regard so far. Maybe there have been even better ones since. I don't know.
What I adore about the Ninth Elegy is his attempt to give poetic credence/legitimacy to what might be called the transcendent. In this age we live in, I find it almost impossible to do so, perhaps because I have so taken to heart and mind all that we have come to learn of this existence of ours. To put it starkly, modern scientific knowledge/discoveries, if really taken to heart and mind, have posed incredible challenges/restrictions to the modern imagination in this regard, at least an imagination to be taken seriously.
Anyway...best to you.
You can't hate me more than I hate myself. I win.
"When the spirit of justice eloped on the wings
Of a quivering vibrato's bittersweet sting."
"When the spirit of justice eloped on the wings
Of a quivering vibrato's bittersweet sting."