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In search of the sublime experience of poetry taking the reader beyond words. Adore Rilke and any poetry that invokes inexpressibility.
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Marcel Proust (1877-1921) believes that the ineffable is ‘immobilised’ in a poem or piece of literature until the reader brings it back to life.

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In Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus, Orpheus is situated between what can & what cannot be said. The archetypal poet looks to poetry to articulate what is beyond words: ‘A god can do it. But how will you tell me, could a man Follow him through the narrow lyre?’ Trans Snow

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Rilke’s poetry addresses the tension between what cannot be said and the necessity of language to impart ineffability. ‘What if we’re only here to say: house, bridge, fountain, gate, jug [..] oh for such saying as things themselves never dreamt so intensely to be’ Duino Elegies trans: E. Snow 2011

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If there is nothing in common between u & other people, try being close to things, they will not desert u; there are the nights still & the winds that go through the trees & across many lands; among things & with the animals every­ thing is still full of happening, in which u may participate: Rilke

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In his ‘thing poems’ Rilke seeks to posit ‘the other’ - people, animals, plants and things in way that can be accessible by seeking to render the inward, the unsayable and the unknowable of the other in some way accessible and affective through alterity.

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Sonnets to Orpheus - Rainer Rilke’s experiment in a seeming irresolvable impasse of the presence of absence: ‘And almost a girl it was and came forth from this glad unity of song and lyre and shone brightly through her spintime veils and made herself a bed within my ear’ Trans: E. Snow, 2011

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