You, darkness, of whom I am born- I love you more than the flame that …

Rainer Maria Rilke
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You, darkness, of whom I am born- I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it illumines and excludes the rest. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke, Anita Barrows, Joanna Macy (1996). Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)
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You, darkness, of whom I am born- I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it illumines and excludes the rest. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke, Anita Barrows, Joanna Macy (1996). Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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