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Mar 2, 2025 | 
napavalleyfocus.substack.com | Tim Carl |Rainer Maria Rilke
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
southernfm.com.au | Rainer Maria Rilke
In the first of two episodes of her special ‘Sundays in September’ series, Cindy and her studio guest David Shields discuss selected songs from 1967-1977 and explore the idea that ‘what the world needs now’ is REFLECTION. This episode of ‘What The World Needs Now’ was broadcast on Southern FM from 10-11am on Sunday 22nd September 2024.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
poetrysociety.org | Rainer Maria Rilke
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the Angels’Orders? and even if one of them pressed mesuddenly to his heart: I’d be consumedin his more potent being. For beauty is nothingbut the beginning of terror, which we can still barely endure,and while we stand in wonder it coolly disdainsto destroy us. Every Angel is terrifying. And so I grip myself and choke down that call noteof dark sobbing. Ah, whom can we turn toin our need?
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
theparisreview.org | Rainer Maria Rilke
By Rainer Maria Rilke July 1, 2024 Rainer Maria Rilke and the Expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker met in the summer of 1900 in the German artists’ colony of Worpswede, which lies to the north of Bremen in a flat, windswept landscape of peat bogs, heather, and silver birch trees. Born just a year apart in the mid-1870s, Modersohn-Becker and Rilke were trailblazers in art and poetry at the dawn of the twentieth century.
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May 24, 2024 | 
sandiegoreader.com | Rainer Maria Rilke
1There the tree rises. Oh pure surpassing!Oh Orpheus sings! Oh great tree of sound!And all is silent, And from this silence ariseNew beginnings, intimations, changings. From the stillness animals throng, out of the clearSnapping forest of lair and nest;And thus they are stealthy not from cunningNot from fearBut to hear. And in their hearts the howling, the cry,The stag-call seem too little.
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May 7, 2024 | 
27east.com | Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated from German to English by Guntram DeichselJust like the last green in a colour potSo are these leaves, withered and wreckedBehind the flower umbels, which reflectA hue of blue only, more they do not. Reflections are tear-stained, inaccurate,As if they were about to cease,And like old blue notepaper sheetsThey wear some yellow, grey and violet,Washed-out like on a children’s apron,Outworn and now no more in use:We contemplate a small life’s short duration.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
newsandsentinel.com | Rainer Maria Rilke
Fear. Shame. Anger. Boredom. Sadness. Disgust. These are feelings we don’t enjoy, and we can often go to great lengths to avoid them. This was documented centuries ago by Blaise Pascal, who is quoted to say “All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.” We try to suppress these emotions, especially fear and shame. Brene Brown has described emotions as like the old string of Christmas lights: when we deny or turn off one light bulb (such as anger) the whole string goes out.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
mariettatimes.com | Rainer Maria Rilke |Joanna Macy
Fear. Shame. Anger. Boredom. Sadness. Disgust. These are feelings we don’t enjoy, and we can often go to great lengths to avoid them. This was documented centuries ago by Blaise Pascal, who is quoted to say “All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.” We try to suppress these emotions, especially fear and shame. Brene Brown has described emotions as like the old string of Christmas lights: when we deny or turn off one light bulb (such as anger) the whole string goes out.
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Dec 28, 2023 | 
activerain.com | Will Hamm |Rainer Maria Rilke |Benjamin Franklin |Melody Beattie
And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. Rainer Maria RilkeBe at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin FranklinThe new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals. Melody BeattieCheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. Oprah WinfreyMake New Year's goals.
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Sam Malone |Isla Phillips-Ewen |Maya Tola |Rainer Maria Rilke
Painting min Read European Art Angels have been a source of artistic inspiration throughout history. Whether adorned with wings and halos or not, the varied appearances of angels in art exemplify a unifying idea: there is no one fixed image of an angel. Here’s a look at a select few. Angels With PersonalityWe begin with perhaps a more unconventional take on angels.
