This poem is taken from PN Review 146, Volume 28 Number 6, July - August 2002.
Two PoemsYou Spoke of Tolstoy
Paula Becker to Rainer Maria Rilke, September 1900
Worpswede
You spoke of Tolstoy
and of Death.
Again. It was three in the morning -
You spoke of being able to die
and wanting to die -
of knowing how to die.
How to accept Eternity.
What did you say?
What did I say?
Again: Being able to die.
Knowing how to die.
And the desire to sink back
into Eternity.
Is it only
the soul's desire?
There is Beauty
...
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