Monday, January 13, 2003

The Swan Comments

Rating: ★2.7

This laboring of ours with all that remains undone,
as if still bound to it,
is like the lumbering gait of the swan.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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Michael Morgan 09 August 2014

Not a bad translation- probably because of the simplicity and directness of the original. MM

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke

Prague / Czech Republic
Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke
Prague / Czech Republic
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