Author: Ranier Maria Rilke
Cited by
- Philip Pullman (1)
- IN: The Amber Spyglass (2000) Fiction, Fantasy Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: O stars,
isn’t it from you that the lover’s desire for the face
of his beloved arises? Doesn’t his secret insight
into her pure features come from pure constellations?
FROM: "The Third Elegy", (1923), Poem, Bohemia/Austria