<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=480332" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Heartbeat</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only mouths are we. Who sings the distant heart<br>which safely exists in the center of all things?<br>His giant heartbeat is diverted in us<br>into little pulses. And his giant grief<br>is, like his giant jubilation, far too<br>great for us. And so we tear ourselves away<br>from him time after time, remaining only<br>mouths. But unexepectedly and secretly<br>the giant heartbeat enters our being,<br>so that we scream ----,<br>and are transformed in being and in countenance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming</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=480332" data-title="Heartbeat de Rainer Maria Rilke" data-description="Only mouths are we. Who sings the distant heart which safely exists in the center of all things? His giant heartbeat is diverted in us into little pulses. And his giant grief is, like his giant jubilation, far too great for us. And so we tear ours..."></div> </div> </div>

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