The Road I have begun … (07/15/12)
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 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.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
(translated by Robert Bly)
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