“They more adeptly bend the willow's branches
who have experience of the willow's roots.”
Rainer Maria Rilke book Sonnets to Orpheus
Sonnet 6 (as translated by Edward Snow)
Sonnets to Orpheus (1922)
“My heart is like the willow
That bends, but never breaks.
It sighs when summer jilts her,
It sings when April wakes.”
"Irreverent Heart"
Rhymes for the Irreverent (1965)
Context: My heart is like the willow
That bends, but never breaks.
It sighs when summer jilts her,
It sings when April wakes. So you, who come a-smiling
With summer in your eyes,
Think not that your beguiling
Will take me by surprise. My heart's prepared for aching
The moment you take wing.
But not, my friend, for breaking
While there's another spring.
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It sings when April wakes." by Yip Harburg?
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