Letters on Life by Rainer Maria Rilke

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780307431370
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2007-12-18T00:00:00+00:00

ON NATURE

It Knows Nothing of Us

It is difficult to live in this world because there exists little love between nature and man and between man and god. Man does not need to love either nature or god—but he has to comport himself in relation to him the same way nature does.

We play with dark forces that cannot be captured with the names we give them, like children playing with fire, and it seems for a moment as if all energy had rested dormant in all objects until now, until we arrived to apply it to our fleeting life and its requirements. But, again and again throughout millennia, those forces shake off their names and rise like an oppressed class against their little masters, or not even against them—they simply rise and the various cultures slide off the shoulders of the earth, which is once again great and expansive and alone with its oceans, trees, and stars.

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