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It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don’t have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.
“You are words on paper...Be careful what stories you tell yourself”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“A book is made of paper but a story is a tree.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“And lovers also gather your inheritance.
They are the poets of one brief hour.
They kiss an expressionless mouth into a smile
as if creating it anew, more beautiful.
Awakening desire, they make a place
where pain can enter;
that’s how growing happens.
They bring suffering along with their laughter,
and longings that had slept and now awaken
to weep in a stranger’s arms.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Und du erbst das Grün,” Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, trans. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy (Riverhead Books, 1996)”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
They are the poets of one brief hour.
They kiss an expressionless mouth into a smile
as if creating it anew, more beautiful.
Awakening desire, they make a place
where pain can enter;
that’s how growing happens.
They bring suffering along with their laughter,
and longings that had slept and now awaken
to weep in a stranger’s arms.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Und du erbst das Grün,” Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, trans. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy (Riverhead Books, 1996)”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
“I know that nothing has ever been real
without my beholding it.
All becoming has needed me.
My looking ripens things
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
without my beholding it.
All becoming has needed me.
My looking ripens things
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
“Spensa, I hear no more footfalls. Have you temporary stopped being bipedal?”
― Skyward
― Skyward
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