Re: Salinger.org


Subject: Re: Salinger.org
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 12:15:11 EST


Paul Miller:

> In fact I read a Rilke poem recently that had something about
>ringing glass, seemed very apropos at the time, can't find it now though.

"Be ever dead in Eurydice--mount more singingly,
mount more praisingly back into the pure relation.
Here, among the waning, be, in the realm of decline,
be a ringing glass that shatters even as it rings."

--second stanza of Poem 13, Part 2 of _The Sonnets to Orpheus_.

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