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Quotes from Das Buch der Bilder (The Book of Images) — Rainer Maria Rilke

1875–1926 Austria

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Slowly the evening changes into the clothes
held for it by a row of ancient trees.

Das Buch der Bilder (The Book of Images) (1902)

Out of infinite longings rise
finite deeds like weak fountains,
falling back just in time and trembling.
And yet, what otherwise remains silent,
our happy energies—show themselves
in these dancing tears.

Das Buch der Bilder (The Book of Images) (1902)

Lord: it is time. The summer was immense.
Let thine shadows upon the sundials fall,
and unleash the winds upon the open fields.

Das Buch der Bilder (The Book of Images) (1902)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rainer Maria Rilke (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.