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Indigo
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X I have a talent for twisting my tongue into silence as tight as a fist (like a cherry stem)
“As I write, more and more of my cells are replaced by language. When they burn a writer's body, the smoke will be shaped llike letters.”
― Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
― Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
“I circle for millennia, around God, around the ancient tower,
and still do not know: am I hawk, a storm, or a great song?”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
and still do not know: am I hawk, a storm, or a great song?”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
“Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.”
― Nobody Knows My Name
― Nobody Knows My Name
“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
“I want to utter you. I want to portray you
not with lapis or gold, but with colors made of apple bark.
There is no image I could invent
that your presence would not eclipse.”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
not with lapis or gold, but with colors made of apple bark.
There is no image I could invent
that your presence would not eclipse.”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
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