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Rainer Maria Rilke

“I want my own will, and I want
simply to be with my will,
as it goes toward action.
And in the silent, sometimes hardly moving times,
when something is coming near,
I want to be with those who know
secret things or else alone...
I want to unfold.
I don’t want to be folded anywhere,
because where I am folded,
there I am a lie.”

Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
tags: poetry, solitude
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Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God by Rainer Maria Rilke
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