Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus

For man this signifies that although life appears to end in the ultimate limitation of death, it must be welcomed as positive in value-even the falling curve acquires positive value as an innate function oftotality.1°7 For those who recognize life and death as part of the same unity, the falling curve of life terminates not in nothingness, but in never-ending totality. Death has been sublimated into life, not as Dionysian continuation, but as transformation of a finite object within an eternal whole  by Rainer Maria Rilke.