The future: time's excuse
to frighten us; too vast
a project, too large a morsel
for the heart's mouth.

Future, who won't wait for you?
Everyone is going there.
It suffices you to deepen
the absence that we are.


Translated by A. Poulin

(C) Rainer Maria Rilke
03/06/2017


Best Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke

• Song Of The Sea
• Fear Of The Inexplicable
• The Unicorn
• As Once The Winged Energy Of Delight
• Woman In Love
• The Sonnets To Orpheus: I
• Dedication
• Elegy X
• The Sisters
• Lament (o How All Things Are Far Removed)
• The Sonnets To Orpheus: Iv
• Eve
• Solemn Hour
• Duino Elegies: The Tenth Elegy
• Elegy I
• Losing
• Fall Day
• Extinguish Thou My Eyes
• What Birds Plunge Through Is Not The Intimate Space
• The Song Of The Widow
• Adam