With
their whole gaze
animals
behold the Open.
Only
our eyes
are
as though reversed
and
set like traps around us,
keeping
us inside.
That
there is something out there
we
know only from the creatures’ countenance.
We
turn even the young child around,
making
her look backward
at
the forms we create,
not
outward into the Open,
which
is reflected
in
the animals’ eyes ….
Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Eighth Elegy”
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