27 Temmuz 2019 Cumartesi

"Time, like the sea, unties all knots" -I.Murdoch


From the publication of her first collection, Only a Rose for Support (1957) onwards, Hilde Domin, who was born on July  27,1909, won almost every German literary and cultural award, including the Rilke, Nelly Sachs and Hölderlin prizes. In an era of prose, her distinctive poetry rapidly attained the status of modern classic in her homeland. Direct and affectingly simple, her work elicited a rare warmth of emotional response beyond the narrow confines of the academy. "A refugee from the east," she once wrote, "can recognise himself in my poems as much as an intellectual."

Nicht müde werden


Nicht müde werden
sondern dem Wunder
leise
wie einem Vogel
die Hand hinhalten.


        Do not grow weary

Do not grow weary
but gently
to the wonder
as if a bird should light
hold out your hand.

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