Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.
The divine speaker — Book of Hours (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Go to the Limits of Your Longing, Book of Hours, I 59; English translation by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows. The poem imagines God speaking; wording reproduced with permission by On Being.
- Go to the Limits of Your Longing, Book of Hours, I 59
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