some tree on a slope
May 6, 2008
Silvia you were so spot on with the Rilke recommendation. Thank you. I’ve never felt an author speak to me so directly and its not typically what I expect or look for from what I read. I had to put the book down a couple times because some sentences hit so close to home. Very powerful. I’m now reading the Duino Elegies. If anyone wants to join me, lemme know.
i’m so glad that you enjoyed it. this is a good one also:
http://books.google.com/books?id=On9uAQAACAAJ&dq=inauthor:Rainer+inauthor:Maria+inauthor:Rilke
hope you are well.
i am well, i think. i hope you are too. i’m on your recommendation. the duino elegies are dense and i can only digest one a day, but i find his writing very moving.
yes, it will be less dense. i haven’t yet read duino elegies. you have a good deal of pace and patience to read it.
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Losing too is still ours, and even forgetting still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation.
When something’s let go of, it circles, and though we are rarely the center
of the circle, it draws around us its unbroken, marvelous curve.
– Ranier Maria Rilke (translated by Stephen Mitchell)