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“But your solitude will be your home and haven even in the midst of very strange conditions, and from there you will discover all your paths.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“All who seek you
test you.
And those who find you
bind you to image and gesture.
I would rather sense you
as the earth senses you.
In my ripening
ripens what you are.”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
test you.
And those who find you
bind you to image and gesture.
I would rather sense you
as the earth senses you.
In my ripening
ripens what you are.”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
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“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
― Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
― Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
“The essence of love lies not in communion, but in the fact that each partner forces the other to become something, something infinitely great, the extreme limit of his strength.”
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