My Sweet Nothing » Rainer Maria Rilke http://www.mysweetnothing.com an open (note)book about art and language Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:09:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Rainer Maria Rilke http://www.mysweetnothing.com/2009/03/86593288/ http://www.mysweetnothing.com/2009/03/86593288/#comments Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:55:52 +0000 Lisa http://mysweetnothing.tumblr.com/post/86593288 Why then, have to be human?
Oh not because happiness exists,
Not out of curiosity …
But because being here means so much;
because everything here,
vanishing so quickly, seems to need us,
and strangely keeps calling to us … To have been
here, once, completely, even if only once,
to have been at one with the earth –
this is beyond undoing.
– Rainer Maria Rilke

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]]> http://www.mysweetnothing.com/2009/03/86593288/feed/ 0 Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet http://www.mysweetnothing.com/2009/01/70848119/ http://www.mysweetnothing.com/2009/01/70848119/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:28:00 +0000 Lisa http://mysweetnothing.tumblr.com/post/70848119 “Things are not all so comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have us believe; most events are inexpressible, taking place in a realm which no word has ever entered, and more inexpressible than all else are works of art, mysterious existences, the life of which, while ours passes away, endures.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke from Letters to a Young Poet

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