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Exposed On The Cliffs Of The HeartExposed on the cliffs of the heart.
Look, how tiny down there,
look: the last village of words and, higher,
(but how tiny) still one last
farmhouse of feeling. Can you see it?
Exposed on the cliffs of the heart. Stoneground
under your hands. Even here, though,
something can bloom; on a silent cliff-edge
an unknowing plant blooms, singing, into the air.
But the one who knows? Ah, he began to know
and is quiet now, exposed on the cliffs of the heart.
While, with their full awareness,
many sure-footed mountain animals pass
or linger. And the great sheltered bird flies, slowly
circling, around the peak's pure denial.--But
without a shelter, here on the cliffs of the heart...
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Wow. Great poem and great piece to go with it.
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One of those poems that you don't quite understand, but totally "get".
TS Eliot said you should be able to read a poem in Sanskrit and still get the impact even if you don't understand the words ... not that I've tried that, yet.
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I agree - one can see it and feel it and it makes emotional sense.
I don't know about Eliot's Sanskrit idea! It works a bit with song sung in other languages, maybe with poetry!
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