Yet Do I Marvel Quotes

“Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing.”
― Countee Cullen

“Knight’s helmet and hunter’s horn,
Wise words of those grown old,
Rage between brothers,
The lute-playing of women’s souls.

Branch upon branch urged on,
Nowhere disentangled ...
One is free! Oh, climb! ... oh, climb! ...

Ah, but they break off.
Yet one, reaching the top, bends
Into a lyre.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus