Rainer Maria Rilke Quote

And one of the things I find most moving is the way people with infirmities manage to embrace Life, and from the cool flowers by the wayside reach conclusions about the vast splendour of its great gardens. They can, if their souls' strings are finely tuned, arrive with much less effort at the feeling of eternity; for everything we do, they may dream. And precisely where our deeds end, theirs begin to bear fruit.


Diaries of a Young Poet (ed. 1998)


And one of the things I find most moving is the way people with infirmities manage to embrace Life, and from the cool flowers by the wayside reach...

And one of the things I find most moving is the way people with infirmities manage to embrace Life, and from the cool flowers by the wayside reach...

And one of the things I find most moving is the way people with infirmities manage to embrace Life, and from the cool flowers by the wayside reach...

And one of the things I find most moving is the way people with infirmities manage to embrace Life, and from the cool flowers by the wayside reach...