Posted: March 15th, 2009 | Author: Lisa | Filed under: regular | Tags: Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke | No Comments »
Why then, have to be human?
Oh not because happiness exists,
Not out of curiosity …
But because being here means so much;
because everything here,
vanishing so quickly, seems to need us,
and strangely keeps calling to us … To have been
here, once, completely, even if only once,
to have been at one with the earth –
this is beyond undoing.
– Rainer Maria Rilke
courtesy whiskey river
Posted: January 16th, 2009 | Author: Lisa | Filed under: regular | Tags: Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke | No Comments »
“Things are not all so comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have us believe; most events are inexpressible, taking place in a realm which no word has ever entered, and more inexpressible than all else are works of art, mysterious existences, the life of which, while ours passes away, endures.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke from Letters to a Young Poet
courtesy http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke
