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

 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

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