Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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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 ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). Letters to a Young Poet
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