"Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning……" — Rainer Maria Rilke
"Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute fruit uncelebratedly thrust your purest secret. Like the tube of a fountain, your bent bough drives the sap downwards and up: and it leaps from its sleep, scarce waking, into the joy of its sweetest achievement."
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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434 Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
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