<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=480407" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>You Who Never Arrived</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You who never arrived <br>in my arms, Beloved, who were lost <br>from the start, <br>I don't even know what songs <br>would please you. I have given up trying <br>to recognize you in the surging wave of <br>the next moment. All the immense <br>images in me -- the far-off, deeply-felt <br>landscape, cities, towers, and bridges, and <br>unsuspected turns in the path, <br>and those powerful lands that were once <br>pulsing with the life of the gods-- <br>all rise within me to mean <br>you, who forever elude me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You, Beloved, who are all <br>the gardens I have ever gazed at, <br>longing. An open window <br>in a country house-- , and you almost <br>stepped out, pensive, to meet me.<br>Streets that I chanced upon,-- <br>you had just walked down them and vanished. <br>And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors <br>were still dizzy with your presence and, <br>startled, gave back my too-sudden image.<br>Who knows? Perhaps the same <br>bird echoed through both of us <br>yesterday, separate, in the evening...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rainer+Maria+Rilke">Rainer Maria Rilke</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=480407" data-title="You Who Never Arrived de Rainer Maria Rilke" data-description="You who never arrived in my arms, Beloved, who were lost from the start, I don't even know what songs would please you. I have given up trying to recognize you in the surging wave of the next moment. All the immense images in me -- the far-..."></div> </div> </div>

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