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Rainer Maria Rilke

“We are the driven ones.
But the march of time
Is but a trifle
In our perpetual enduring.

All this hastening
Will soon be done;
For only lingering
Can consecrate our being.

Young men, don’t throw
Your energies into tests of
Speed or aerial flight.

Know that all is in repose:
The darkness, the brilliantly luminous,
The flower, the book”

Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus
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