21.12.09

the space of a tree

'Space, outside ourselves, invades and ravishes things:

if you want to achieve the existence of a tree,

invest it with inner space, this space

that has its being in you. Surround it with compulsions,

it knows no bounds, and only really becomes a tree

if it takes its place in the heart of your renunciation'

 

(Rilke (1924) Poeme)

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