One part of this work begins with a saying of the Incomprehensible One, "The creature gazes into openness with all its eyes. But our eyes are as if they were reversed." This series ends "And we, who think of ascending joy, would feel the emotion, that almost dismays us, when a joyful thing falls." The second part of this poetic work begins "every angel is terror." In the first section, the speaker asks his addressee, "Have you remembered Gaspara Stampa sufficiently yet?" This set of poems was written in the Adriatic castle of Princess von Thurn und Taxis, and begins "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the Angelic Orders?" For 10 points,
One part of this work begins with a saying of the Incomprehensible One, "The creature gazes into openness with all its eyes. But our eyes are as if they were reversed." This series ends "And we, who think of ascending joy, would feel the emotion, that almost dismays us, when a joyful thing falls." The second part of this poetic work begins "every angel is terror." In the first section, the speaker asks his addressee, "Have you remembered Gaspara Stampa sufficiently yet?" This set of poems was written in the Adriatic castle of Princess von Thurn und Taxis, and begins "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the Angelic Orders?" For 10 points, name this set of poems written by Rainer Maria Rilke.
One part of this work begins with a saying of the Incomprehensible One, "The creature gazes into openness with all its eyes.
Duino Elegies