“If the angel deigns to come,
it will be because you have convinced her
not by tears, but by your humble resolve
to be always beginning; to be a beginner.”
[Rainer Maria Rilke]
it will be because you have convinced her
not by tears, but by your humble resolve
to be always beginning; to be a beginner.”
[Rainer Maria Rilke]
Carrie's Bench 
Rainer Maria Rilke: “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 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.
“A Walk” by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Robert Bly
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Thank you for sharing this beautiful poem, Ed. For someone who has just met Rilke, you discovered a jewel.
Peace.
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