<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=480293" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Archaic Torso of Apollo</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We cannot know his legendary head<br>with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso<br>is still suffused with brilliance from inside,<br>like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">gleams in all its power. Otherwise<br>the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could<br>a smile run through the placid hips and thighs<br>to that dark center where procreation flared.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Otherwise this stone would seem defaced<br>beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders<br>and would not glisten like a wild beast’s fur:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">would not, from all the borders of itself,<br>burst like a star: for here there is no place<br>that does not see you. You must change your life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rainer+Maria+Rilke">Rainer Maria Rilke</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=480293" data-title="Archaic Torso of Apollo de Rainer Maria Rilke" data-description="We cannot know his legendary head with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso is still suffused with brilliance from inside, like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low, gleams in all its power. Otherwise the curved breast could not da..."></div> </div> </div>

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