Famous Manipulating Poems by Famous Poets

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Duino Elegies: The Fourth Elegy

...re at is so intensely that in the end
to counter-balance my searching gaze, an angel
has to come as an actor, and begin manipulating
the lifeless bodies of the puppets to perform.
Angel and puppet! Now at last there is a play!
Then what we seperate can come together by our
very presence. And only then the entire cycle
of our own life-seasons is revealed and set in motion.
Above, beyond us, the angel plays. Look:
must not the dying notice how unreal, how full
of pretense is al...Read more of this...
by Rilke, Rainer Maria


The Marionettes Of Distant Masters

...utterfly can 
annoy the other's the most. 

 And this is happening in his window box. The Cosmic 
Plan: Distant Masters manipulating minor Masters who, in turn, 
are manipulating tiny butterfly-Masters who, in turn, are 
manipulating him . . . A universe webbed with strings! 
 Suddenly it is all so beautiful; the light is strange . . . 
Something about the light! He begins to cry . . ....Read more of this...
by Edson, Russell

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