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I'll read you now about
half a dozen poems.

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First of all, from a section
of this book called Reckonings,

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and then about half a dozen
poems from the second book,

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called Songs.

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The way the book
is put together,

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the Reckonings are whatever
you want to call them,

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self-evaluations,
confessions, whatever.

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It becomes clear enough
as you hear them.

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And then the Songs are--

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it's like in the first
poems, it's hurting,

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and there's crying out, and then
afterwards, breathing in again.

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And thinking about
that kind of thing,

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you suddenly realize,
yeah, that's what

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the word inspiration
means is breathing in,

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drawing the spirits back in.

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You yell and get the bad
ones out, and then breathe.

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First of all, this poem
translated from Rilke.

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And his title for
it is "Herbsttag."

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"Lord, it is time.

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Our long summer ends.

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Lengthen now thy
shadow on the sundial,

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and in the farthest
fields, revolve thy winds.

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Command the last fruits
that they swell and fill.

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Give them two days more
for their proud weight,

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urge them to fulfillment, then
drive the sweet chosen flesh

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into the rich wine of the fall.

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Now, who has no house
shall build him none.

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Who is alone shall long
remain alone to wake

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and read, to write
and read long letters,

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and restless he shall wander up
and down the shrouded avenues

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where leaves are swirling."

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