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A Walk by Rainer Maria Rilke

8/28/2008 12:28:05 PM

Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke
(1875 - 1926 / Germany)

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A Walk

My eyes already touch the sunny hill.
going far ahead of the road I have begun.
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has inner light, even from a distance-

and charges us, even if we do not reach it,
into something else, which, hardly sensing it,
we already are; a gesture waves us on
answering our own wave...
but what we feel is the wind in our faces.

Translated by Robert Bly

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Herbert Nehrlich (7/29/2008 7:17:00 AM)
A terrible translation!
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Yoonoos Peerbocus (7/12/2007 11:29:00 AM)
a nice cosmic vision

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