<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=480395" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Voices</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The rich and fortunate do well to keep silent,<br>for no one cares to know who and what they are.<br>But those in need must reveal themselves,<br>must say: I am blind,<br>or: I'm on the verge of going blind,<br>or: nothing goes well with me on earth,<br>or: I have a sickly child,<br>or: I have little to hold me together...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And chances are this is not nearly enough.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And because people try to ignore them as they<br>pass by them: these unfortunate ones have to sing!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And at times one hears some excellent singing!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of course, people differ in their tastes: some would<br>prefer to listen to choirs of boy-castrati.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But God himself comes often and stays long,<br>when the castrati's singing disturbs Him.</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=480395" data-title="The Voices de Rainer Maria Rilke" data-description="The rich and fortunate do well to keep silent, for no one cares to know who and what they are. But those in need must reveal themselves, must say: I am blind, or: I'm on the verge of going blind, or: nothing goes well with me on earth, or: I have ..."></div> </div> </div>

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