Moving Forward

Portrait of Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875–1926

The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. It seems that things are more like me now, That I can see farther into paintings. I feel closer to what language can't reach. With my senses, as with birds, I climb into the windy heaven, out of the oak, in the ponds broken off from the sky my falling sinks, as if standing on fishes.

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    The last line should read: "my feeling sinks, as if standing on fishes."

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