by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Language: French (Français)
Abandon entouré d'abandon, tendresse touchant aux tendresses... C'est ton intérieur qui sans cesse se caresse, dirait-on ; se caresse en soi-même, par son propre reflet éclairé. Ainsi tu inventes le thème du Narcisse exhaucé.
Composition:
- Set to music by Morten Lauridsen (b. 1943), "Dirait-on", 1993, first performed 1994 [ chorus and piano ], from Les Chansons des Roses, no. 5
Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 3. Les Roses, no. 5, first published 1927
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- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , "One might say", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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