The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to i…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and bliss. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). Letters to a Young Poet
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The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and bliss. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). Letters to a Young Poet

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