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Rainer Maria Rilke

Poetry

Autumn 1981

Ariel

By Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell

Translated from German.   after reading Shakespeare’s “Tempest” Once, somewhere, somehow, you had set him free with that sharp jolt which as a young man tore you out of your […]