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Rainer Maria Rilke - The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: XIIIRainer Maria Rilke - The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: XIII
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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 all will your heart survive. Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise into the seamless life proclaimed in your song. Here, in the realm of decline, among momentary days, be the crystal cup that shattered even as it rang. Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin, the infinite source of your own most intense vibration, so that, this once, you may give it your perfect assent. To all that is used-up, and to all the muffled and dumb creatures in the world`s full reserve, the unsayable sums, joyfully add yourself, and cancel the count. Translated by Stephen Mitchell
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