<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=480386" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: XIII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were<br>behind you, like the winter that has just gone by.<br>For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter<br>that only by wintering through it all will your heart survive.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise<br>into the seamless life proclaimed in your song.<br>Here, in the realm of decline, among momentary days,<br>be the crystal cup that shattered even as it rang.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin,<br>the infinite source of your own most intense vibration,<br>so that, this once, you may give it your perfect assent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To all that is used-up, and to all the muffled and dumb<br>creatures in the world's full reserve, the unsayable sums,<br>joyfully add yourself, and cancel the count.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Translated by Stephen Mitchell</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=480386" data-title="The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: XIII de Rainer Maria Rilke" data-description="Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it all will your heart survive. Be forever dead in Euryd..."></div> </div> </div>

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