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'We only pass everything by like a transposition of air.'

(R.M. Rilke, The Duino Elegies)

 

AURÉLIE GRAVAS, FRANCIS DENYS, FRED MICHIELS, JOKE RAES,
LAURE FORÊT, MARIEKE VAN WUYTSWINKEL, NICK HULLEGIE

21/01 - 26/02/2017



 

"Lovers, if Angels could understand them, might utter
strange things in the midnight air. For it seems that everything’s
trying to hide us. Look, the trees exist; the houses
we live in still stand where they were. We only
pass everything by like a transposition of air.
And all combines to suppress us, partly as shame,
perhaps, and partly as inexpressible hope."

 

R.M. Rilke, The Second Elegie. In: The Duino Elegies

(translated from German by J.B. Leishman and Stephen Spender). 

Duineser Elegien, 1912 - 1923.