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Rainer Maria Rilke

“We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate. From images that are full, the spirit plunges on to others that suddenly must be filled; there are no lakes till eternity. Here, falling is best. To fall from the mastered emotion into the guessed-at, and onward.”

Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
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The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke
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