Départ
Language: French (Français)
Our translations: CAT ENG GER GER
Mon amie, il faut que je parte.
Voulez-vous voir
l'endroit sur la carte ?
C'est un point noir.
En moi, si la chose
bien me réussit,
ce sera un point rose
dans un vert pays.
Confirmed with The Complete French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, Saint Paul: Greywolf Press, 1986, Pages 256, 258.
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Partença", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Thomas A. Gregg) , "Departure", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Abreise", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Abreise", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Line count: 8
Word count: 34
Departure
Language: English after the French (Français)
My dear one, I must leave.
Do you want to see
the place on the map?
It is a black point.
In me, if the thing
succeeds,
it will be a red point
in a green land.
Text Authorship:
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