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Rainer Maria Rilke

(1875–1926)

Bohemian-Austrian poet

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Only press on: no feeling is final.”

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source: From The Book of Hours in The Poetry of Rilke, trans. and ed. by Edward Snow (New York: North Point Press, 2009), 33.

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“Perhaps we are here in order to say: house, bridge, fountain, gate, pitcher, fruit-tree, window—”

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source: “The Ninth Elegy,” in Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus (New York: Vintage Books, 2009), 57.

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