
Ode & Psyche Podcast
reading with Rilke: DIE SIEBENTE ELEGIE, The Cry
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Bianca Stone reads and discusses Rilke’s 7th Elegy, translation by Stephen Mitchell. Also some Wallace Stevens, Larry Levis, Lucretius, and more….
Not only all the dawns of summer–, not only
how they change themselves into day and shine with beginning.
Not only the days, so tender around flowers and above,
around patterned treetops, so strong, so intense.
Not only the reverence of all these unfolded powers,
not only pathway, not only the meadows at sunset,
not only, after a late storm, the deep-breathing freshness,
not only approaching sleep, and a premonition…