Rainer Maria Rilke Evening Quotations

Whoever you are: some evening take a step out of your house, which you know so well. Enormous space is near.

Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, seperate, in the evening.

Girls, there are poets who learn from you to say, what you, in your aloneness, are; and they learn through you to live distantness, as the evenings through the great stars become accustomed to eternity.