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“Whoever you are: some evening take a step out of your house, which you know so well. Enormous space is near.”
Rilke
The Way In (Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. Robert Bly)
Whoever you are: some evening, take a step
out of your house, which you know so well
Enormous space is there, your house lies where it begins
Whoever you are
Your eyes find it hard to tear themselves
from the sloping threshold. With your eyes,
slowly, slowly, lift one black tree
up so it stands against the sky, skinny and alone
With this you have made the world
The world, which is like a word
still growing in the silence
In the moment that your will grasps it
your eyes, feeling its subtlety, will leave it
out of your house, which you know so well
Enormous space is there, your house lies where it begins
Whoever you are
Your eyes find it hard to tear themselves
from the sloping threshold. With your eyes,
slowly, slowly, lift one black tree
up so it stands against the sky, skinny and alone
With this you have made the world
The world, which is like a word
still growing in the silence
In the moment that your will grasps it
your eyes, feeling its subtlety, will leave it
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