If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small thin…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). Letters to a Young Poet, p.34, New World Library
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