Rainer Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926 / Prague / Czech Republic)
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The Future
The future: time's excuse
to frighten us; too vast
a project, too large a morsel
for the heart's mouth.
Future, who won't wait for you?
Everyone is going there.
It suffices you to deepen
the absence that we are.
Translated by A. Poulin
Rainer Maria Rilke
Submitted: Monday, January 13, 2003
Read poems about / on: future, time, heart
Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke : 87 / 124
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