Monday, January 13, 2003

From The Tenth Elegy Comments

Rating: 2.8

Ah, but the City of Pain: how strange its streets are:
the false silence of sound drowning sound,
and there--proud, brazen, effluence from the mold of emptiness--
the gilded hubbub, the bursting monument.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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A K 02 July 2012

I recommend other translations, don't like this one at all.

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