“Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!”
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“A tree ascended there. Oh pure transendence!
Oh Orpheus sings! Oh tall tree in the ear!
And all things hushed. Yet even in that silence
a new beginning, beckoning, change appeared.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, book Sonnets to Orpheus
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Sonnets to Orpheus (1922)
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