Friday, December 29, 2006

In Honor of the Solemnity of the 90th Anniversay of Rainer Maria Rilke's Death...

I leave you with a fragment from the poem Requiem, written by the man in 1909. It's one of my favorite snippets of his poems.

"We need, in love, to practice only this:
letting each other go. For holding on
comes easily; we do not need to learn it."

We would've been good friends, him and I, supposing I were to speak German and be living a good 100 years or so earlier...

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