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Quotes from Sonnets to Orpheus — Rainer Maria Rilke

1875–1926 Austria

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They more adeptly bend the willow's branches
who have experience of the willow's roots.

Sonnets to Orpheus (1922)

When you go to bed, don't leave bread or milk
on the table: it attracts the dead.

Sonnets to Orpheus (1922)

A tree ascended there. Oh pure transendence!
Oh Orpheus sings! Oh tall tree in the ear!
And all things hushed. Yet even in that silence
a new beginning, beckoning, change appeared.

Sonnets to Orpheus (1922)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rainer Maria Rilke (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.