Paula Modersohn-Becker (February 8, 1876 – November 21, 1907)
"I have my dead and I have let them go and was amazed to see them so contented, so at home in being dead, so cheerful, so unlike their reputation. Only you return; brush past me, loiter, try to knock against something, so that the sound reveals your presence. Oh don’t take from me what I am slowly learning. I’m sure you have gone astray if you are moved to homesickness for anything in this dimension. We transform these Things; they aren’t real, they are only the reflections upon the polished surface of our being."
Rainer Maria Rilke, Requiem for a Friend, Stephen Mitchell translation.
Excerpt of the beautiful and profound poem that Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) wrote as a tribute to his good friend, the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907), who suddenly died eighteen days after giving birth to her first child. Rilke wrote it over two haunted nights (October 31 and November 1st, 1908) at the Hotel Biron, Paris.
music
Sarah Connolly sings: "Bei dir ist es Traut" by Alma Mahler
https://youtu.be/ivn6lvXFImE
"I have my dead and I have let them go and was amazed to see them so contented, so at home in being dead, so cheerful, so unlike their reputation. Only you return; brush past me, loiter, try to knock against something, so that the sound reveals your presence. Oh don’t take from me what I am slowly learning. I’m sure you have gone astray if you are moved to homesickness for anything in this dimension. We transform these Things; they aren’t real, they are only the reflections upon the polished surface of our being."
Rainer Maria Rilke, Requiem for a Friend, Stephen Mitchell translation.
Excerpt of the beautiful and profound poem that Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) wrote as a tribute to his good friend, the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907), who suddenly died eighteen days after giving birth to her first child. Rilke wrote it over two haunted nights (October 31 and November 1st, 1908) at the Hotel Biron, Paris.
music
Sarah Connolly sings: "Bei dir ist es Traut" by Alma Mahler
https://youtu.be/ivn6lvXFImE
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2016-04-17
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