Artist: Rainer Maria Rilke
Lyrics of Artist: Rainer Maria Rilke
  1. [Lyric] The Panther Mitchell trans. (Rainer Maria Rilke)

    His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world. As he paces in cramped circles, over and over, the movement of his powerful soft strides is like a ritual dance around a center in which a mighty will stands paralyzed. Only...Learn More
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  2. [Lyric] Archaic Torso of Apollo (Rainer Maria Rilke)

    We cannot know his legendary head with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso is still suffused with brilliance from inside, like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low, gleams in all its power. Otherwise the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could a smile run through the placid hips and thighs to that dark center where...Learn More
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