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Rainer Maria Rilke

“The trees which you planted as a child
Have long since grown too heavy; you do not deceive them.
But the winds ... but the spaces ...
Raise no monument. For it is the roses
Which salute Him year by year with their petals.
This, you see, is Orpheus”

Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus
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