i really should read rilke every day, like the bible. but i don't, i go away for a while and read other things, and then when i come back to rilke--find a poem scribbled in my sketchbook or trip over the book of hours in my room...i fall in love all over again.
one of my favorites:
(forgive the line breaks, i'm sure i've got them all wrong)
I come home
from the soaring
in which I lost myself.
I was song,
and the refrain which is God
is still roaring in my ears.
Now I am still and plain:
no more words.
To the others I was like a wind:
I made them shake.
I’d gone very far,
as far as the angels,
and high, where
light thins into nothing.
But deep in the darkness
is God.
Rainer Maria Rilke, the Book of Hours
