“Before the winter fire, I will still be dreaming, For who knows, where the time goes?” Sandy Denny “They are …Continue reading →| dVerse
Archivist extraordinaire Elena S. Danielson (at right) kindly took me out to the Stanford Faculty Club for lunch last week. The kindness didn’t stop with the tiramisu. The former director of the Hoover Library & Archives also gave me a new edition of Rainer Maria Rilke‘s “Larenopfer” – to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the […]| The Book Haven
10.000 Manuskriptseiten von Rainer Maria Rilke gehen an das Deutsche Literaturarchiv Marbach. Bislang kümmerten sich darum die Nachkommen des Poeten.| taz.de
Rainer Maria Rilke Extrait du Livre de la pauvreté et de la mort, traduction Arthur Adamov Les grandes villes ne pensent qu’à elles-mêmes et entraînent tout dans leur hâte dévorante ; elles brisent la vie des bêtes comme du bois mort et consument des peuples entiers dans leur tourment. Et les hommes asservis à une […]| Les Amis de Bartleby
“We disparage ourselves endlessly, sometimes with reason… but more often, and more damningly, with a kind of black clarity of judgment that reaches right past all that we have or have not done, reaches past any insight or diagnosis that psychology can offer, and fingers us at the heart of what we are. Wrongness, call it. A stark and utter saturation of self: God’s most deep decree Bitter would have me taste: my taste was me.” - The poet Christian Wiman in My Bright Abyss; the final...| Meta is Murder
Are you superstitious of black cats? ?| A Poem A Day:
I can tell by the way the trees beat, after| 999 Poems