by
Georg Trakl (1887 - 1914)
Vision der Wirklichkeit
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): ENG FRE
Heute ist diese Vision der Wirklichkeit
wieder in Nichts versunken,
ferne sind mir die Dinge,
ferner noch ihre Stimmen,
und ich lausche, ganz beseeltes Ohr,
wieder auf die Melodien,
die in mir sind,
und mein beschwingtes Auge
träumt wieder seine Bilder,
die schöner sind
als alle Wirklichkeit!
From a letter to Hermine von Rautenberg, 05.10.1908
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , title 1: "Vision de la réalité", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Vision of reality", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Ferdinando Albeggiani
This text was added to the website: 2008-07-25
Line count: 11
Word count: 47
Vision of reality
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch)
Today this vision of reality*
has sunk again into nothingness,
faraway are things to me,
even more remote their voices,
and I listen [with] enlivened [senses]
once again to the melodies
inside me,
and my elated eye
dreams its visions again
that are more beautiful
than all reality.
* in the sense of empirical truth
Authorship:
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Georg Trakl (1887 - 1914), "Vision der Wirklichkeit"
This text was added to the website: 2010-06-14
Line count: 11
Word count: 48