fortyish australian, lives in terraced house in north london with a 4 year old and a feisty but fading goldfish. reads far too many 'mommyblogs'. misses sunshine and blue skies and twisties. addicted to reading actual books, sleeping and the scent of roses in other people's gardens.
I was trying to pin down a Rilke quote, the very one about the bat and the teacup porcelain, when I googled it and you were the first quote to come up.
The Duino Elegies has always been my absolute favorite of all of Rilke's works. I have gone through three Shambala Pocket Classics of Mitchell's translation, having given one away to someone who clearly needed it more than me, and having destroyed my other two by carrying them with me every day for months at a stretch. It is a book you fall into and only surface from slowly, as if drowning in warm, thick syrup.
Thanks to serif publishing
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What about freedom of expression...?
(just kidding!)
I was trying to pin down a Rilke quote, the very one about the bat and the teacup porcelain, when I googled it and you were the first quote to come up.
The Duino Elegies has always been my absolute favorite of all of Rilke's works. I have gone through three Shambala Pocket Classics of Mitchell's translation, having given one away to someone who clearly needed it more than me, and having destroyed my other two by carrying them with me every day for months at a stretch. It is a book you fall into and only surface from slowly, as if drowning in warm, thick syrup.
HA! AWESOME.
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