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Weil sich in der Ekstase der Nachtigall ihr Inneres als
Andreas Weber • Alles fühlt (German Edition)
Go to the Limits of Your Longing
Written by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated and read by Joanna Macy
Listen
God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.
These are the words we dimly hear:
You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.
Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move i
Viver como poeta é um convite à apreciação.
Rainer Maria Rilke • Cartas a um jovem poeta (Portuguese Edition)
Like a river flows,
Carried by the surprise
Of its own unfolding.”
– John O’Donohue
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