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ES Photo by Bruce Donehower “Du, mein Freund, bist einsam... ” (“You, my friend, are lonely... ”) A Sonnet for a Dog In...
Rilke Project
“Sonnets to Orpheus” by Rainer Maria Rilke
“We are the bees of the invisible. We frantically plunder the visible of its honey, to accumulate it in the great golden hive of the invisible.” — Rilke
The local Section group in Fair Oaks has given much attention to the poetry of Rilke. But we do this as artists rather than as scholars, primarily.
“The Myth of Orpheus” by Marc Chagall
“Hearing Rilke”
The Tower of Muzot, where Rilke completed the Duino Elegies and wrote the Sonnets to Orpheus in 1922 An Essay on the...
The Rilke Project / “Dance the Orange”
"Tanzt die Orange" ["Dance the Orange"] Part 1, Sonnet 15. Performance Video with Original Music and...
Rilke Part 1 Sonnet 21 “Fruhling ist weidergekommen”
“Wildly Dancing Children” by Emil Nolde Frühling ist wiedergekommen [Spring has returned] Part 1, Sonnet 21. English...
Rilke Part 1 Sonnet 20 “Dir aber Herr”
“Claude, two years old, and his hobby horse,” by Pablo Picasso Dir aber, Herr, o was weih ich dir, sag . . . [O what...
Rilke Part 2 Sonnet 1 “Atmen”
“God creates man and gives him breath” by Marc Chagall Atmen, du unsichtbares Gedicht! [Breath, you invisible poem!]...
Rilke Part 1 No.8 & Part 2 No. 29
“The Blue Nymph” by Marc Chagall Two sonnets are featured in this performance video. (Part 1, No 8 and Part 2 No 29)...