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Rainer Maria Rilke

“We made but rough sketches of our gods at first,
They who were continually overthrown by sullen Fate.
But still, they were the Immortal Ones. And look, we may yet
Come to hear of He who will finally hear us.”

Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus
tags: fate, god, the-divine
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