Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
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"A billion stars go spinning through the night,glittering above your head,But in you is the presence that will bewhen all the stars are dead."
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
"Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walkonly on feelings. That faces upwardand in its mirrorreceives heavenly roads, which travelalong themselves.That has learned to walk upon waterwhen it scoops,that walks upon wells,transfiguring every path.That steps into other hands,changes those that are like itinto a landscape:wanders and arrives within them,fills them with arrival."
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
"Oh hours of childhood,when behind each shape more than the past appearedand what streamed out before us was not the f"
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
"Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence."
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
"Our age has built itself vast reservoirs of power / formless as the straining energy that it wrests from the earth."
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
"We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate. From images that are full, the spirit plunges on to others that suddenly must be filled; there are no lakes till eternity. Here, falling is best. To fall from the mastered emotion into the guessed-at, and onward."
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke