# Quote — Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus

> A tree ascended there. Oh pure transendence!
>
> Oh Orpheus sings! Oh tall tree in the ear!
>
> And all things hushed. Yet even in that silence
>
> a new beginning, beckoning, change appeared.

- Author: [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rainer-maria-rilke.md)
- Book: [Sonnets to Orpheus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rainer-maria-rilke/sonnets-to-orpheus.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke#Sonnets_to_Orpheus_(1922)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/rainer-maria-rilke/sonnets-to-orpheus/a-tree-ascended

## More from this book

> They more adeptly bend the willow's branches
>
> who have experience of the willow's roots.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rainer-maria-rilke/sonnets-to-orpheus/they-more-adeptly.md)

> When you go to bed, don't leave bread or milk
>
> on the table: it attracts the dead.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rainer-maria-rilke/sonnets-to-orpheus/when-you-go-to-bed.md)