Rilke on Women
"For centuries now, women have performed the whole of love; they have always played the full dialogue, both parts. For the man has only imitated them, and badly. And has made their learning difficult with his inatentiviness, with his negligence, with his jealousy..."
-Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
posted by The Anarchists' Lunchtable @ 5:52 AM
1 Comments:
At 2:04 PM,
The Anarchists' Lunchtable said…
Good analysis, Elkie. The only problem is that Rainer Maria Rilke was a man, probably the greatest German poet. The woman on the photo is the artist Nicki de St. Phalle.
Einbildung ist auch Bildung.
Tatina
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