Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus, First Series, Number 15

Hail the spirit that wants to join us together;
because we live truly in the virtual.
And the clock hands creep in tiny paces
beside our actual day.

Without knowing our true places,
we behave as we are related to things.
The antennas feel the antennas
and the empty distances echo . . .

Pure impression. O music of the powers!
Through easy commerce is not
each trouble diverted from you?

Even the grower’s care and cultivation,
as the seed transmutes itself in summer,
isn’t what matters. The earth bestows.