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Written by Adrienne Rich | Create an image from this poem

Burning Oneself Out

 We can look into the stove tonight
as into a mirror, yes, 

the serrated log, the yellow-blue gaseous core 

the crimson-flittered grey ash, yes.
I know inside my eyelids
and underneath my skin 

Time takes hold of us like a draft
upward, drawing at the heats
in the belly, in the brain 

You told me of setting your hand
into the print of a long-dead Indian
and for a moment, I knew that hand, 

that print, that rock,
the sun producing powerful dreams
A word can do this 

or, as tonight, the mirror of the fire
of my mind, burning as if it could go on
burning itself, burning down 

feeding on everything
till there is nothing in life
that has not fed that fire


Written by Rainer Maria Rilke | Create an image from this poem

The Sonnets To Orpheus: X

 You who are close to my heart always,
I welcome you, ancient coffins of stone,
which the cheerful water of Roman days
still flows through, like a wandering song.

Or those other ones that are open wide
like the eyes of a happily waking shepard
-with silence and bee-suck nettle inside,
from which ecstatic butterflies flittered;

everything that has been wrestled from doubt
I welcome-the mouths that burst open after
long knowledge of what it is to be mute.

Do we know this, my friends, or don't we know this?
Both are formed by the hesitant hour
in the deep calm of the human face.

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