Translation of Rilke — Out rides the knight in black Steel into all the roaring World. Out there is all in all: Spring day, Valley lay, Friend and Fiend, Grail and Glade, Meal in the Hall, Maiden in May, God himself, seen ten thousand times, in every Alleyway. But within the Armor of the…

Wednesday Wisdom with Emily Dickinson — Partake as doth the Bee, Abstemiously. The Rose is an Estate — In Sicily. Partake as doth the Bee caught my eye after a conversation with my daughter. She think it is absurd to buy cut flowers and place them indoors for decoration. …

Wednesday Wisdom with Emily Dickinson — When I hoped I feared — Since I hoped I dared Everywhere alone As a church remain — Spectre cannot harm — Serpent cannot charm — He deposes doom Who hath suffered him — I love the beautiful, simple rhythm to this verse. …

Wednesday Wisdom with Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for Death — He kindly stopped for me — The Carriage held but just Ourselves — And Immortality. We slowly drove — He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For his Civility…

Wednesday Wisdom with Emily Dickinson Rehearsal to Ourselves Of a Withdrawn Delight — Affords a Bliss like Murder — Omnipotent — Acute — We will not drop the Dirk — Because We love the Wound The Dirk Commemorate — Itself Remind Us that we died. What a painful, true description…

Wednesday Wisdom with Emily Dickinson We don’t cry — Tim and I, We are far too grand — But we bolt the door tight Too prevent a friend — Then we hide our brave face Deep in our hand — Not to cry — Tim and I — We are far…

Wednesday Wisdom with Emily Dickinson — “Why do I love” You, Sir? Because — The Wind does not require the Grass To answer — Wherefore when He pass She cannot keep her place. Because He knows — and Do not you — And We know not — Enough for Us The Wisdom it be so — …