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“Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow”
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“You are not too old
and it is not too late
to dive into your increasing depths
where life calmly gives out
its own secret.”
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and it is not too late
to dive into your increasing depths
where life calmly gives out
its own secret.”
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“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours: A New Translation with Commentary (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
― Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours: A New Translation with Commentary (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
Justin’s 2024 Year in Books
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