The hero is strangely akin to those who die young. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilk…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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The hero is strangely akin to those who die young. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (1975). University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures
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The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you. ✨ 'Wendung' ('Turning Point'). Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mi … ▶
Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair.
Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with every … ▶
Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation. ✨ The Poet's Guide to Life: The Wisdom of Rilke.
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The hero is strangely akin to those who die young. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (1975). University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures

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