Book of Hours

Das Stunden-Buch

I love the dark hours of my nature,
My feelings at that time grew deeper;
They are like old letters in which I find my ordinary life has passed,
Like a distant legend that has been surpassed.
I also realized that I might be able to obtain a second life, one that is broad and eternal.
Sometimes I am like that mature tree,
Rustling, completing the dream on a grave, the long-dead boy (warm roots wrapped around him)
Lost dreams, in sorrow and singing.
—Rael Rainer Maria Rilke, The Life of a Monk

2024-05-01

人民文学出版社

99 Readers

172

9787020185894