Rainer Maria Rilke

The Inner Sky Ah, not to be cut off, not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of...

You, Darkness by Rainer Maria Rilke You darkness from which I come, I love you more than all the fires...

Behind All Words, the Unsayable Stands   Happy are those who know: Behind all words, the Unsayable stands; And from...

Written on the Wall at Chang’s Hermitage It is Spring in the mountains. I come alone seeking you The sound...

My Life Is Not This Steeply Sloping Hour My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see...

Now You See It What you don’t see helps you see what you do see: the keyhole sharpens the thrill...

Buddha in Glory Center of all centers, core of cores, almond self-enclosed, and growing sweet– all this universe, to the...

Be Ahead of All Parting Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter...

SUNSET Slowly the west reaches for clothes of new colors which it passes to a row of ancient trees. You...

When you think about the teachers who gave you something valuable, some were kind and some were fierce.  There were...