(no subject)
Ah, not to be cut off,
not through the slightest partition
shut out from the law of the stars.
The inner -- what is it?
if not the intensified sky,
hurled through with birds and deep
with the winds of homecoming
- Rainer Maria Rilke
English version by Stephen Mitchell
from Poetry Chaikhana
not through the slightest partition
shut out from the law of the stars.
The inner -- what is it?
if not the intensified sky,
hurled through with birds and deep
with the winds of homecoming
- Rainer Maria Rilke
English version by Stephen Mitchell
from Poetry Chaikhana