I have had this question for a while..and I'm hoping someone may be able to answer it. In the movie "Only You", (starring Marisa Tomei) she and Robert Downing Jr. are walking together and they're discussing a poem about a bird. I believe one line is, "didn't the same bird echo in both of us last evening". It's something like that anyway. She says it's by a poet named Rearka or Realka..I apologize for the spelling, I have no idea who this poet is or how you would spell his name. If anyone is at all familiar with this poet or the poem..would you mind letting me know. It's been bothering me for years and I have no idea how to find this out.

Thank you!!!

-- Amy Grass (dwgrass@snet.net), January 19, 2000

Answers

This is a mess, you post it as a poem, and it goes bananas.

so, if you want to read it in a poem format, here you will find it :

http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&sc=on&q=same%2Bbird% 2Bechoed&kl=XX&stype=stext&search.x=42&search.y=17

-- ilza (ilza@pobox.com), January 19, 2000.

You who never arrived

You who never arrived in my arms, Beloved, who were lost from the start I don't even know what songs would please you. I have given up trying to recognize you in the surging wave of the next moment. All the immense images in me--the far-off, deeply-felt landscape, cities, towers, and bridges, and un- suspected turns in the path, and those powerful lands that were once pulsing with the life of the gods-- all rise within me to mean you, who forever elude me.

You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house--, and you almost stepped out, pensive, to meet me. Streets that I chanced upon,-- you had just walked down them and vanished. And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors were still dizzy with your presence and, startled, gave back my too-sudden image. Who knows? perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, separate, in the evening...

--Rainer Maria Rilke

-- ilza (ilza@pobox.com), January 19, 2000.