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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Translation © by Stephen Cohn

Nah ist nur Innres; alles andre fern
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Nah ist nur Innres; alles andre fern.
Und dieses Innere gedrängt und täglich
mit allem überfüllt und ganz unsäglich.
Die Insel ist wie ein zu kleiner Stern,

welchen der Raum nicht merkt und stumm zerstört
in seinem unbewußten Furchtbarsein,
so daß er, unerhellt und überhört,
allein,

damit dies alles doch ein Ende nehme,
dunkel auf einer selbsterfundnen Bahn
versucht zu gehen, blindlings, nicht im Plan
der Wandelsterne, Sonnen und Systeme.

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Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Neue Gedichte, Leipzig Insel-Verlag 1920


Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Neue Gedichte, in Die Insel - Nordsee, no. 3

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This text was added to the website: 2023-04-20
Line count: 12
Word count: 70

The Star
 (Sung text for setting by C. Matthews)
 See original
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch) 
What lives within is near. All else lies far
 [ ... ]
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Composition:

    Set to music by Colin Matthews (b. 1946), "The Star", 2007-8, published 2008 [ voice, alto flute, horn, harp, piano, violin, viola, violoncello ], from The island, no. 3, Faber music

Text Authorship:

  • by Stephen Cohn , no title, appears in New Poems, in The Island in the North Sea, no. 3, copyright ©

Based on:

  • a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Neue Gedichte, in Die Insel - Nordsee, no. 3
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This text was added to the website: 2023-09-02
Line count: 12
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