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“The Future” by
Rainer Maria Rilke
🇦🇹
(
4 Dec 1875
–
29 Dec 1926
)
Translated from the German
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.