Rainer Maria Rilke

Moving Forward

Moving Forward - meaning Summary

Inner Life Expands Outward

The speaker describes an inward surge of feeling that opens outward like a river. Perception widens: objects and paintings seem nearer, and language falls short. Sensory experience becomes a kind of flight, lifting the self from ordinary roots into a windy, almost aquatic unity with nature. Images of birds, oaks, and ponds suggest a steady, graceful movement toward a broader, less verbal awareness.

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The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. It seems that things are more like me now, That I can see farther into paintings. I feel closer to what language can't reach. With my senses, as with birds, I climb into the windy heaven, out of the oak, in the ponds broken off from the sky my falling sinks, as if standing on fishes.

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