The Sixth Elegy (according to translator Stephen Mitchell) was begun at Duino Castle on February/March 1912; lines 1-31: Ronda, January/February 1913; lines 42-44: Paris, late autumn 1913; lines 32-41: Muzot, February 9, 1922
Rilke spent two months in Egypt early in 1911 and “was deeply moved by
the incomprehensible temple-world of Karnak, which I saw the very first evening, and again yesterday, under a moon just beginning to wane: saw, saw, saw-my God, you pull yourself together and with all your might you try to believe your two focused eyes-and yet it begins above them, reaches out everywhere above and beyond them (only a god can cultivate such a field of vision) ...”
~letter to Clara Rilke, January 18, 1911
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