has replaced the meadows' wintry grey.
Little rivulets of water changed
their singing accents. Tendernesses,
hesitantly, reach toward the earth
from space, and country lanes are showing
these unexpected subtle risings
that find expression in the empty trees."
- Early Spring by Rainer Maria Rilke, 1901, translated from the German by Albert Ernest Flemming, New York, Methuen: 1986.
Koloman Moser - Early Spring, for Ver Sacrum, 1901, Austrian Achives, Vienna.
6 comments:
I love Rilke. Thank you for the inspiration from the snowiness of my world!
Betty
Hi, Jane. Always beautiful to read Rilke, who has been much on my mind and own blog of late with the series on Rilke and Rodin (I won't include a link to make this shameless plug a little less shameless ;)).
Actually, I am submitting this comment to ask if you are familiar with the new project started by H Nyazi (of the “3 pipe problem” art blog) to create an “art and history database” (AHDB)? The idea of AHDB is to compile a search list of quality sites. In part it is a response to those rather unscrupulous marketing wizzes who busy themselves compiling the “50 best art history blogs) and the like as a ploy for building up traffic to commercial websites that have nothing to do with art. AHDB is completely legit in this regard and I think will quickly grow into a very worthwhile resource for art lovers. I have suggested they consider including The Blue Lantern on their site list. If interested you can read this article here. Let me know what you think!
Gossamer Tearoom, I'd been reading some Rilke poems about summer and I though that he must have written something about the season we're in, so I started digging. This one is very weel known, but I'd overlooked it. It had an auspicious debut.
Lorenzo, please feel free to share your link. A new art database sounds interesting. I've probably mentioned this before that the French have done an excellent job of putting their cultural patrimony online. In the early days of the internet there was a profusion of images and little text, but many sites were opaque, and some still are.
Just finished reading Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet" and it was a nice coincidence to find this poem of his posted to your site. Nice thoughts after the winter we're still having in New England.
Suston, it's still winter in the Empire State but we can dream.
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