<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=480357" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Portrait of my Father as a Young Man</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the eyes: dream. The brow as if it could feel<br>something far off. Around the lips, a great<br>freshness--seductive, though there is no smile.<br>Under the rows of ornamental braid<br>on the slim Imperial officer's uniform:<br>the saber's basket-hilt. Both hands stay<br>folded upon it, going nowhere, calm<br>and now almost invisible, as if they<br>were the first to grasp the distance and dissolve.<br>And all the rest so curtained within itself,<br>so cloudy, that I cannot understand<br>this figure as it fades into the background--.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh quickly disappearing photograph<br>in my more slowly disappearing hand.</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=480357" data-title="Portrait of my Father as a Young Man de Rainer Maria Rilke" data-description="In the eyes: dream. The brow as if it could feel something far off. Around the lips, a great freshness--seductive, though there is no smile. Under the rows of ornamental braid on the slim Imperial officer's uniform: the saber's basket-hilt. Both h..."></div> </div> </div>

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