Rainer Maria Rilke - A Walk

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Rainer Maria Rilke - A Walk
English version by Robert Bly
Original Language German


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 its inner light, even from a distance--

and changes 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.


-- from Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, Translated by Robert Bl
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