That reminds me so much of the famous Wim Wenders film “Wings of Desire”. Walter Benjamin too writes fascinatingly about the “Angel of History”.
Gustave Dore – artist
They all have weary mouths,
bright souls without a seam.
And a yearning (as for sin)
often haunts their dream.They wander, each and each alike,
in God’s garden silently,
as many, many intervals
in his might and melody.Only when they spread their wings
they awaken a great wind through the land:
as though with his broad sculptor-hands
God was turning
the leaves of the dark book of the Beginning.(translation by C. F. MacIntyre)
I read this poem a couple times and struggled with it. There is a tension here that is tangible but not easy to identify. I did a little research online about Rilke’s ideas concerning angels, and he would go into deeper exploration of the topic in his Duino Elegies.
Throughout the Duino Elegies, Rilke explores themes of “the limitations and insufficiency of the human condition and fractured human…
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