I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false...

The speaker frames inner “unfolding” as an ethical and existential imperative: to live truthfully is to remain open, permeable, and in process. “Closed” places in the self suggest fear, defensiveness, or self-deception—areas where one withholds feeling or insight to preserve a fixed identity. Rilke often treats growth as a painful but necessary expansion toward greater consciousness; here, authenticity depends on refusing inner barricades. The line also implies that falseness is not merely lying to others but constricting one’s own becoming. Openness, then, is both vulnerability and integrity: a willingness to be changed by experience and to let the self be fully seen, even by oneself.