Rainer Maria Rilke Tribute

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HEARTBEAT



Only mouths are we. Who sings the distant heart
which safely exists in the center of all things?
His giant heartbeat is diverted in us
into little pulses. And his giant grief
is, like his giant jubilation, far too
great for us. And so we tear ourselves away
from him time after time, remaining only
mouths. But unexpectedly and secretly
the giant heartbeat enters our being,
so that we scream ----,
and are transformed in being and in countenance.

--Rainer Maria Rilke



FAVORITE QUOTES:

"All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood."

"Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it."

"I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone."

"A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship."

"It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning."

"It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it."