Early Spring

Tree

Early Spring

Harshness vanished. A sudden softness

has replaced the meadows' wintry grey.

Little rivulets of water changed

their singing accents. Tendernesses,

hesitantly, reach toward the earth

from space, and country lanes are showing

these unexpected subtle risings

that find expression in the empty trees.

Rainer Maria Rilke

What birds plunge through is not the intimate space
What birds plunge through is not the intimate space in which you see all forms intensified.(Out in the Open, you would be denied your self, would disappear into that vastness.)
Space reaches from us and construes the world: to know a tree, in its true element, throw inner space around it, from that pure abundance in you. Surround it with restraint. It has no limits. Not till it is held in your renouncing is it truly there. Rainer Maria Rilke