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Rainer Maria Rilke

“But when I lean over the chasm of myself—
it seems
my God is dark
and like a web: a hundred roots
silently drinking.

This is the ferment I grow out of.

More I don’t know, because my branches
rest in deep silence, stirred only by the wind.”

Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
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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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