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# I Live My Life
- URL: https://poetry101.love/i-live-my-life/
- Published: 2023-01-15T20:27:51.000Z
- Updated: 2023-04-24T01:33:02.000Z
- Description: by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Author: Melissa Anderson
- Tags: #Import 2026-11-04 19:11

I live my life in growing orbits,  
which move out over the things of the world.  
Perhaps I can never achieve the last,  
but that will be my attempt.  
  
I am circling around God, around the ancient tower,  
and I have been circling for a thousand years,  
and I still don't know if I am a falcon,  
Or a storm, or a great song.

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Rainer Maria Rilke, Translated by Bly, Robert. [News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness](https://www.google.com/books/edition/News%5Fof%5Fthe%5FUniverse/UN8REAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0&kptab=getbook&ref=poetry101.love). United States, Counterpoint Press, 2015.