Here is the time for the sayable, here is its home. Speak and attest. More than ever the things we can live with are falling away, and ousting them, filling their place, a will with no image. Will beneath crusts which readily crack whenever the act inside swells and seeks new borders.


The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (ed. Vintage, 2013) - ISBN: 9780307787545


Here is the time for the sayable, here is its home. Speak and attest. More than ever the things we can live with are falling away, and ousting them,...

Here is the time for the sayable, here is its home. Speak and attest. More than ever the things we can live with are falling away, and ousting them,...

Here is the time for the sayable, here is its home. Speak and attest. More than ever the things we can live with are falling away, and ousting them,...

Here is the time for the sayable, here is its home. Speak and attest. More than ever the things we can live with are falling away, and ousting them,...