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[braille_lief]

Engel! Es ware ain Platz, den wir nitch wissen

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[anonymous]

It's from the Fifth Duino Elegy, Rainer Maria Rilke

[braille_lief]

how did you know?
wow didn't know there were other people who still actually had an interest in poetry.
care to fix the translation?

[anonymous]

It's not much of an interest in poetry, but more of an interest in the origin of modern ideas and interpretations. It's funny how one word can steal away from the authors message. Perhaps that why people say that "it's the little things" like a way someone says hello or even smile. The translation my friend found to be close to it is:
http://www.dead.net/RobertHunterArchive/files/Poetry/Elegies/elegy5.html

[braille_lief]

why so anonymous?

[anonymous]

poetry is sometimes admired, even when anonymous is it's author.

[braille_lief]

back then they had a reason to be