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I believe in all that has never yet been spoken
By Rainer Maria Rilke

English version by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy


I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.
I want to free what waits within me
so that what no one has dared to wish for

may for once spring clear
without my contriving.

If this is arrogant, God, forgive me,
but this is what I need to say.
May what I do flow from me like a river,
no forcing and no holding back,
the way it is with children.

Then in these swelling and ebbing currents,
these deepening tides moving out, returning,
I will sing you as no one ever has,

streaming through widening channels
into the open sea.

Date: 2011-04-26 07:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] diebirchen.livejournal.com
Even lovelier in the original German.

Date: 2011-04-26 11:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com
So I should add another poet to the list to read when I learn German, which I currently have no plans on learning, but I have started the list. *grins*

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