The Swan by Rainer Maria Rilke
This laboring through what is still undone, as though, legs bound, we hobbled along the way, is like the akward walking of the swan.
And dying-to let go, no longer feel the solid ground we stand on every day- is like anxious letting himself fall
into waters, which receive him gently and which, as though with reverence and joy, draw back past him in streams on either side; while, infinitely silent and aware, in his full majesty and ever more indifferent, he condescends to glide.
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