Selected by Michael Fitzpatrick
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926)
Translation by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows
Wer seines Lebens viele Widersinne
Book of Hours, I 17
She who reconciles the ill-matched threads
of her life, and weaves them gratefully
into a single cloth —
it’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hall
and…