“Perhaps we are here in order to say: house, bridge, fountain, gate, pitcher, fruit-tree, window—”
Rainer Maria Rilke
more infosource: “The Ninth Elegy,” in Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus (New York: Vintage Books, 2009), 57.
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category: bridge, existence, fountain, fruit tree, gate, house, pitcher, window
medium: poetry
“Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act we have no way of knowing what we are. And the experience of our existence is impossible without some experience of knowing or some experience of experience.”
Thomas Merton
more infosource: Thoughts in Solitude (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999), 121.
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category: action, being, existence, experience, identity
medium: nonfiction
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