kvetchlandia:  Max Beckmann      Journey on the Fish      1933 …On the table gaily set, behold, within the dish, the fishes’ queer countenance. Fish are mute … so one thought. Who knows? Is there not a place where the language of the fish, in their absence, is at last in common parlance?…— Rainer Maria Rilke, from “The Sonnets to Orpheus,” 1922

kvetchlandia:

 Max Beckmann      Journey on the Fish      1933

…On the table gaily set, behold, within the dish,

the fishes’ queer countenance.

Fish are mute … so one thought. Who knows?

Is there not a place where the language of the fish,

in their absence, is at last in common parlance?…—

Rainer Maria Rilke, from “The Sonnets to Orpheus,” 1922