#duino

[postcard-from-the-past]

Castle of Duino, Friuli Venezia Giulia region of Italy

Italian vintage postcard

[royalchildreneurope]

King Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands, Queen Máxima of The Netherlands and Princess Ariane of The Netherlands pose for pictures as they attend Princess Ariane's graduation ceremony, at UWC Adriatic in Duino, Italy -May 24th 2025.

📷 : Koninklijk Huis.

[schizografia]

Crede di vedere dei fantasmi chi non vuole vedere la notte, chi la riempie dello spavento di piccole immagini, l’occupa e la distrae fissandola, arrestando l’oscillazione dell’eterno ricominciare. Tutto ciò è vuoto e non esiste, ma viene rivestito di una sorte di essere, rinchiuso, se possibile, in un nome, una storia, una similitudine; si dice, come Rilke a Duino: “ Sono Raymondine e Polissena”.

Maurice Blanchot

[celtos]

rainer maria rilke. duino elegies

[thepersonalwords]

Even when the lights go out, even when someone says to me: "It's over---," even when from the stage a gray gust of emptiness drifts toward me,even when not one silent ancestor sits beside me anymore---not a woman, not even the boy with the brown squint-eye:I'll sit here anyway. One can always watch.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

[foursaints]

who do you think would be the most likely to live a fanfic coffee shop romance??????? honestly the more i think about it the more i see a snobby wine connoisseur regulus in a fancy restaurant and cheerful sommelier james which is not coffee shop au buttttttttt

jegulus is often so endearing to me because they're two characters for whom the cheesy fanfiction romance tropes actually make SENSE... james & regulus have an identical commute and are always picking up from the same hole-in-the-wall hipster coffee shop at the same time. regulus is the grumpy snobby fuck in pleated trousers who's always like "large dark roast. black." and refuses to call it "venti" or whatever. james is the guy before him in line who thinks it's amusing to come up with increasingly stupid and convoluted orders (remus is the barista & his roommate & just gives him a psl regardless) just because he likes to see regulus look more & more aghast each day.....

[dk-thrive]

And we: spectators, always, everywhere, turned toward the world of objects, never outward. It fills us.  We arrange it.  It breaks down. We rearrange it, then break down ourselves.

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from "Eight Elegy" in Duino Elegies (Insel Verlag, 1923) (via Thoughts)

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"O upturned glance: / new, warm, receding ripple of the heart –"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies, "The Second Elegy" (tr. Alfred Corn)

[lionofchaeronea]

Every angel means terror--and yet (woe's me) / I sing unto you, you all-but-fatal birds of the soul, / knowing all about you. Jeder Engel ist schrecklich. Und dennoch, weh mir, / ansing ich euch, fast tödliche Vögel der Seele, / wissend um euch. -Rainer Maria Rilke, "Duino Elegies" No. 2

[glittergroovy]

[royalchildreneurope]

Princess Ariane of The Netherlands attends her graduation ceremony, at UWC Adriatic in Duino, Italy -May 24th 2025.

📷 : Andrea Agati & Erika Burulo/UWC Adriatic.

[luciferetlucia]

"For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying."

Rainer Maria Rilke, The First Elegy (The Duino Elegies & the Sonnets to Orpheus, tr. Stephen Mitchell)

[yorgunherakles]

ne sabahın süsenleri tanır seni ne incir ağacı, ne atlar ne tepedeki dolunay, ne çocuk tanır seni ne de ikindi, ölüsün çünkü, dirileceğin de yok.

federico garcia lorca - tamarit divanı

[u2fangirlie-blog]

Crowley Reads The Duino Elegies by Rilke

Crowley reads "The Duino Elegies" by Rainer Maria Rilke. He has a first edition copy signed by Rilke. Crowley annotated the poems in red ink. Some pages are tear stained. He keeps the book locked in a safe where no one else will see it. Hastur, Beelzebub, and Shax would make fun of him if they knew. Crowley tried to discuss Rilke with Aziraphale, but the angel doesn't understand "The Duino Elegies." It's not his taste in poetry. The pain and yearning are beyond Aziraphale's personal experience. That is all. I won't be taking questions. Thanks for coming to my talk.

Part of the First Elegy - Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell, translator

Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? and even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.

P.S.: If you have never read "The Duino Elegies," you can read it in the original German, or I recommend the English translation by Stephen Mitchell. It is superior to other translations.

[waywordsstudio]

3 Word Review: “Duino Elegies” by Rainer Maria Rilke -

Thick reverie, message-wearied verse, but passionate and mystical, paradoxical and devotional to the human condition.

[aschenblumen]

Rainer Maria Rilke, «Décima elegía» en Elegías de Duino. Versión de Juan Rulfo.