I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enoughto make every moment holy. I am too tiny in this world, and not tiny enoughjust to lie before you like a thing, shrewd and secretive. I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my will, as it goes toward action;and in those quiet, sometimes hardly moving times, when something is coming near, I want to be with those who know secret thingsor else alone. I want to be a mirror for your whole body, and I never want to be blind, or to be too oldto hold up your heavy and swaying picture. I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.and I want my grasp of things to betrue before you. I want to describe myselflike a painting that I looked atclosely for a long time, like a saying that I finally understood, like the pitcher I use every day, like the face of my mother, like a shipthat carried methrough the wildest storm of all. . Rainer Maria Rilke
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I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enoughto make every moment holy. I am too tiny in this world, and not tiny enoughjust to lie before you like a thing, shrewd and secretive. I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my will, as it goes toward action; And in those quiet, sometimes hardly moving times, when something is coming near, I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. I want to be a mirror for your whole body, and I never want to be blind, or to be too old to hold up your heavy and swaying picture.

I want to unfold. I don't want to stay folded anywhere because where I am folded there I am a lie. and I want my grasp of things to betrue before you.

I want to describe myself like a painting that I looked at closely for a long time like a saying that I finally understood like the pitcher I use every day like the face of my mother like a ship that carried methrough the wildest storm of all

Source: Rilkes Book Of Hours: Love Poems To God

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