28 March 2011

Rebensaft

Was wir heftig lange wünschen müssen,
Und was wir nicht zu erhalten wissen,
Drückt sich tiefer unserm Herzen ein.

- Anna Louisa Karsch, An den Domherrn von Rochow

(I just spent an hour translating this poem. I cannot tell you what it means, but I can tell you that these lines are too beautiful and too precisely true to try to render them in any other language.)

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