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 [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 Viktor Kioulaphides (b. 1961), "Nah ist nur Innres; alles andre fern" [ voice and piano or mandolins ], from Nordsee Lieder, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Leopold Spinner (1906 - 1980), "Die Insel", op. 16 (Liederen) no. 3c (1960), published c2005, copyright © 1975 [ soprano and piano ], London : Boosey & Hawkes [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in English, a translation by Stephen Cohn , no title, appears in New Poems, in The Island in the North Sea, no. 3, copyright © ; composed by Colin Matthews.
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What lives within is near. All else lies far [ ... ]
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1 Matthews: "lies"
Confirmed with Stephen Cohn, Rainer Maria Rilke. Neue Gedichte / New poems, Evanston : Northwestern University Press, 1998, p.115
Text Authorship:
- by Stephen Cohn , no title, appears in New Poems, in The Island in the North Sea, no. 3, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- 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 [sung text checked 1 time]
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