Rainer Maria Rilke - Exposed on the cliffs of the heart

Rainer Maria Rilke - Exposed on the cliffs of the heart

Exposed on the cliffs of the heart. Look, how tiny down there, br look: the last village of words and, higher, br (but how tiny) still one last br farmhouse of feeling. Can you see it? br Exposed on the cliffs of the heart. Stoneground br under your hands. Even here, though, br something can bloom; on a silent cliff-edge br an unknowing plant blooms, singing, into the air. br But the one who knows? Ah, he began to know br and is quiet now, exposed on the cliffs of the heart. br While, with their full awareness, br many sure-footed mountain animals pass br or linger. And the great sheltered birds flies, slowly br circling, around the peak's pure denial. - But br without a shelter, here on the cliffs of the heart...


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Uploaded: 2014-11-07

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