![]() ![]() Piero della Francesca’s “The Story of the True Cross,” Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro,” Bach’s “The Well-Tempered Clavier,” Matisse’s cut-outs. ![]() How’s that for an answer? Strange, disquieting, isn’t it? We wonder if it can possibly be true.) The third is this: There are rare moments when art rises into something we can only marvel at. (In sum, he says we exist because the things in the world need us, need us to turn the object world into consciousness, and more specifically, into words. The second is that what it proposes, which is an ‘answer’ to one of the central questions we as humans face: ‘Why do we exist?” The answer is so stunning that I don’t know how to deal with it. The ‘maybe’ refers to the conditions of its coming-into-being, at the end of a truly extended writer’s block. ![]() The poem has two, and maybe three, remarkable aspects. So just printing the poem twice takes up four pages. I take it up as I usually do, line by line, stanza by stanza. That seems to me appropriate, since it is on what I consider to be one of the very greatest of all poems, Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Ninth Duino Elegy.” The poem itself is two pages. ![]()
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