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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

...If we surrendered

to earth’s intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Instead we entangle ourselves
in knots of our own making
and struggle, lonely and confused.

So like children, we begin again...

to fall,
patiently to trust our heaviness.
Even a bird has to do that
before he can fly.

(from the poem "How Sure Gravity's Law")

Rainer Maria Rilke

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