It's a fine poem, but I think it's based on a poor understanding of Rilke's original, which calls Apollo's head "ungehört", a word which has nothing to do with hearing in Rilke's poem. While it can mean "unheard" in the proper context, just as it can sometimes mean "disgraceful," it is widely used to mean something like "unrivalled" or "unprecedented", which is clearly what Rilke meant.
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