Friday, January 3, 2003

Exposed On The Cliffs Of The Heart Comments

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Exposed on the cliffs of the heart. Look, how tiny down there,
look: the last village of words and, higher,
(but how tiny) still one last
farmhouse of feeling. Can you see it?
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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Mary Scafidi 18 October 2018

Please... please read this and give me the name of the translator. I have been looking for, for twenty years!

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Susan Williams 06 February 2018

This is one of the things I love about writing- - there are those who find new and imaginative and heart-touching ways to communicate universal topics like love. How many great poems about love there are and they still manage to transmit their emotions in such a wealth of experiencesm 10000000000000000000000 of course

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Edward Kofi Louis 06 February 2018

Even here! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Richard Wlodarski 06 February 2018

Rilke was indeed a great poet. As witnessed in this marvelous poem.

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke

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