Spaziergang  

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Spaziergang is a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke

Schon ist mein Blick am Hügel, dem besonnten,
dem Wege, den ich kaum begann, voran.
So faßt uns das, was wir nicht fassen konnten,
voller Erscheinung, aus der Ferne an

"A Walk"

My eyes already touch the sunny hill,

going far ahead of the road I have begun.

So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;

it has its inner light, even from a distance —

and changes us, even if we do not reach it,

into something else, which, hardly sensing it, we already are;

a gesture waves us on, answering our own wave ...

but what we feel is the wind in our faces.

by Rainer Maria Rilke (1924)
Translated by Robert Bly

See also

• Strolling