Rainer Maria Rilke

“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”

“I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, a storm, or a great song.”

“You are the future, the immense morning sky turning red over the prairies of eternity.”

“You are the deep innerness of all things, the last word that can never be spoken.”

“Let yourself ring out. Become a bell.”

“You are the future, the great Sunrise to come over the plains of eternity. You are the cock-crow when night's time has passed.”

“Earth, isn't this what you want: an invisible re-arising in us?”

“Every angel is terrifying.”

“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure.”

“We, who have always thought of joy as rising, would feel the emotion that almost overwhelms us when a happy thing falls.”

“Praise the world to the angel: leave the unsayable aside.”

“Praise the world to the angel, not the unsayable. Show him the simple things, shaped from generation to generation.”

“Here is the time for the sayable, here is its homeland.”

“Speak and bear witness. More than ever the things we can live with are falling away.”

“Earth, my dearest, I will. Oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over.”

“Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the house, the last before the far-off.”

“With your eyes, which are tired so they hardly can lift themselves from the door-jamb, you slowly raise a black tree and stand it before the sky.”

“You have made the world. And it is huge, and like a word, ripening in silences.”

“To the rushing water, speak: I am.”