Home » Quote » Rainer Maria Rilke » „This difficult living, heavy and as if all tied up,moving through that which has been left undone,is like the not-quite-finished walk of the swan.And dying, this slipping away fromthe ground upon which we stand every day,is his anxious letting himself fall—:into the waters, which receive him gladlyand which, as if happily already gone by,draw back under him, wave after wave;while the swan, infinitely calm and self-assured,opener and more magnificentand more serene, allows himself to be drawn on.“
„This difficult living, heavy and as if all tied up,moving through that which has been left undone,is like the not-quite-finished walk of the swan.And dying, this slipping away fromthe ground upon which we stand every day,is his anxious letting himself fall—:into the waters, which receive him gladlyand which, as if happily already gone by,draw back under him, wave after wave;while the swan, infinitely calm and self-assured,opener and more magnificentand more serene, allows himself to be drawn on.“