Vision of reality | Today this vision of reality*

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by Georg Trakl (1887 - 1914)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Vision der Wirklichkeit

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: 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

Text Authorship:

by Georg Trakl (1887 - 1914), "Vision der Wirklichkeit" [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 Huub Kerstens (1947 - 1999), "Vision der Wirklichkeit", op. 23 (1988). [
text not verified
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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

Text Authorship:

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Georg Trakl (1887 - 1914), "Vision der Wirklichkeit"
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This text was added to the website: 2010-06-14
Line count: 11
Word count: 48