National Poetry Month: Rainer Maria Rilke, “You Who Never Arrived“

“You Who Never Arrived“, by Rainer Maria Rilke, read by Nigel Maister, Russell and Ruth Peck Artistic Director of the International Theatre Program. You who never arrived in my arms, Beloved, who were lost from the start, I don’t even know what songs would please you. I have given up trying to recognize you in the surging wave of the next moment. All the immense images in me--the far-off, deeply-felt landscape, cities, towers, and bridges, and un- suspected turns in the path, and those powerful lands tha