<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=480404" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>What Survives</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who says that all must vanish?<br>Who knows, perhaps the flight<br>of the bird you wound remains,<br>and perhaps flowers survive<br>caresses in us, in their ground.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It isn't the gesture that lasts,<br>but it dresses you again in gold<br>armor --from breast to knees--<br>and the battle was so pure<br>an Angel wears it after you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Translated by A. Poulin</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=480404" data-title="What Survives de Rainer Maria Rilke" data-description="Who says that all must vanish? Who knows, perhaps the flight of the bird you wound remains, and perhaps flowers survive caresses in us, in their ground. It isn't the gesture that lasts, but it dresses you again in gold armor --from breast to knee..."></div> </div> </div>

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