Départ
French source:
Rainer Maria Rilke
Voulez-vous voir
l’endroit sur la carte?
C’est un point noir.
En moi, si la chose
bien me réussit,
ce sera un point rose
dans un vert pays.
Departure
English translation ©
Richard Stokes
Would you care to see
the place on the map?
It's marked in black.
In me, if things
work out, it will be
a pink mark
in a green land.
Translation © Richard Stokes author of A French Song Companion (Oxford, 2000)
Départ
French source:
Rainer Maria Rilke
Departure
English source:
Richard Stokes
Mon amie, il faut que je parte.
My love, I must leave.
Voulez-vous voir
Would you care to see
l’endroit sur la carte?
the place on the map?
C’est un point noir.
It's marked in black.
En moi, si la chose
In me, if things
bien me réussit,
work out, it will be
ce sera un point rose
a pink mark
dans un vert pays.
in a green land.
Composer
Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist. He is "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets".He…