<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=480392" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Spanish Dancer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As on all its sides a kitchen-match darts white<br>flickering tongues before it bursts into flame:<br>with the audience around her, quickened, hot,<br>her dance begins to flicker in the dark room.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And all at once it is completely fire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One upward glance and she ignites her hair<br>and, whirling faster and faster, fans her dress<br>into passionate flames, till it becomes a furnace<br>from which, like startled rattlesnakes, the long<br>naked arms uncoil, aroused and clicking.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then: as if the fire were too tight<br>around her body, she takes and flings it out<br>haughtily, with an imperious gesture,<br>and watches: it lies raging on the floor,<br>still blazing up, and the flames refuse to die -<br>Till, moving with total confidence and a sweet<br>exultant smile, she looks up finally<br>and stamps it out with powerful small feet.</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=480392" data-title="The Spanish Dancer de Rainer Maria Rilke" data-description="As on all its sides a kitchen-match darts white flickering tongues before it bursts into flame: with the audience around her, quickened, hot, her dance begins to flicker in the dark room. And all at once it is completely fire. One upward glance ..."></div> </div> </div>

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