{"id":5293,"date":"2016-10-12T09:03:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T16:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/?p=5293"},"modified":"2016-10-12T09:03:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T16:03:40","slug":"rainer-maria-rilke-i-believe-in-all-that-has-never-yet-been-spoken-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/12\/rainer-maria-rilke-i-believe-in-all-that-has-never-yet-been-spoken-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainer Maria Rilke – I believe in all that has never yet been spoken"},"content":{"rendered":"

I believe in all that has never yet been spoken
\nby Rainer Maria Rilke<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

English version by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy<\/font><\/p>\n

I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.
\nI want to free what waits within me
\nso that what no one has dared to wish for<\/p>\n

may for once spring clear
\nwithout my contriving.<\/p>\n

If this is arrogant, God, forgive me,
\nbut this is what I need to say.
\nMay what I do flow from me like a river,
\nno forcing and no holding back,
\nthe way it is with children.<\/p>\n

Then in these swelling and ebbing currents,
\nthese deepening tides moving out, returning,
\nI will sing you as no one ever has,<\/p>\n

streaming through widening channels
\ninto the open sea.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a> \u2014 from Rilke\u2019s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God<\/a>, by Rainer Maria Rilke \/ Translated by Joanna Macy<\/font><\/p>\n


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What can I say to this poem \u2014 but Yes!<\/p>\n

I want to free what waits within me
\nso that what no one has dared to wish for<\/p>\n

may for once spring clear
\nwithout my contriving.<\/i><\/p>\n

May we all find the key that unlocks within ourselves creativity, capability, compassion\u2026. that our lives may become a more perfect song to the Eternal.<\/p>\n

May what I do flow from me like a river,
\nno forcing and no holding back\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n

So what waits within you?<\/p>\n


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<\/a>Recommended Books: Rainer Maria Rilke<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n\n

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The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry<\/a><\/small><\/td>\nAhead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke<\/a><\/small><\/td>\nThe Soul is Here for its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures<\/a><\/small><\/td>\nRilke\u2019s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God<\/a><\/small><\/td>\nIn Praise of Mortality: Rilke\u2019s Duino Elegies & Sonnets to Orpheus<\/a><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
More Books >><\/a><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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\n\"Rainer<\/a>\n<\/td>\n\nRainer Maria Rilke<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Germany (1875 \u2013 1926) Timeline<\/a>
\nSecular or Eclectic<\/a><\/a>
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More poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I believe in all that has never yet been spoken by Rainer Maria Rilke English version by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy I believe in all that has never yet been spoken. I want to free what waits within me so that what no one has dared to wish for may for once spring clear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[504,70],"class_list":["post-5293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-creativity","tag-rainer-maria-rilke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5294,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions\/5294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}