
The Spanish Student http://www.readbookonline.net/title/3208/, Act I, sc. iii (serenade) (1843).
Stanza 30
Poems (1820), The Eve of St. Agnes
The Spanish Student http://www.readbookonline.net/title/3208/, Act I, sc. iii (serenade) (1843).
“Rose, oh pure contradiction, desire,
To be no one's sleep under so many
Lids.”
Rose, oh reiner Widerspruch, Lust,
Niemandes Schlaf zu sein unter soviel
Lidern.
Rilke wrote his own epitaph sometime before October 27, 1925. He requested that it be inscribed on his gravestone. This was fifteen months before his death. (Translation: John J.L.Mood)
Source: The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
“Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.”
“I can sleep like a champion. I once slept through a smoke alarm going off. For three hours.”
Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances