Center, how from all beings
you pull yourself, even from those that fly
winning yourself back, irresistable center.
He who stands: as a drink through thirst
gravity plunges down through him.
But from the sleeper falls
( as though from a motionless cloud )
the abundant rain of the heavy.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
you pull yourself, even from those that fly
winning yourself back, irresistable center.
He who stands: as a drink through thirst
gravity plunges down through him.
But from the sleeper falls
( as though from a motionless cloud )
the abundant rain of the heavy.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
