"It is not a passage, this breathing"
Rilke, Milosz, Jacob, Mueller, Seferis, Kyger, Hughes
Rainer Maria Rilke to Auguste Rodin, Sept. 1, 1902:
Je sens que travailler c’est vivre sans mourir.
[I feel that to work is to live without dying.]
Czeslaw Milosz (trans. Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Hass):
Max Jacob (trans. William Kulik):
Lisel Mueller:
George Seferis (trans. Walter Kaiser):
Joanne Kyger:
Langston Hughes:
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