by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Que vaudrait la douceur
Language: French (Français)
Que vaudrait la douceur si elle n'était capable, tendre et ineffable, de nous faire peur? Elle surpasse tellement toute la violence que, lorsqu'elle s'élance, nul ne se défend.
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Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 1. Vergers, in 44. Printemps, no. 5 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Jean Philippe Dartois , "Que vaudrait la douceur", 2017 [ voice and piano ], from Vergers, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
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