Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Song, Years, Storm

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

• I live my life in widening circle That reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, But I give myself to it. I circle around God, that primordial tower. I have been circling for thousands of years, And I still don't know: am I a falcon, A storm, or a great song? [I, 2]

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Song, Circles, Years

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

• and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Song, Years, Circles

• My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying. Much stands behind me; I stand before it like a tree; I am only one of my many mouths, and at that, the one that will be still the soonest. I am the rest between two notes, which are somehow always in discord because Death’s note wants to climb over— but in the dark interval, reconciled, they stay there trembling. And the song goes on, beautiful.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Song, Dark

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

• Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise into the seamless life proclaimed in your song. Here, in the realm of decline, among momentary days, be the crystal cup that shattered even as it rang.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Song, Joy, Forever

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: XIII”

• But you, divine poet, you sang on till the end as the swarm of rejected maenads attacked you, shrieking, you overpowered their noise with harmony, and from pure destruction arose your transfigured song.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Song, Maenads, Noise

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.133, Vintage

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