This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.


In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus (ed. 2005)

Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.