Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Fragment from the Ninth Elegy

Maybe we're here only to say: house,
bridge, well, gate, jug, olive tree, window —














at most, pillar, tower... but to say them, remember,
oh, to say them in a way that the things themselves
never dreamed of existing so intensely.

Rainer Maria Rilke


From the Writer's Almanac.

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