I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my wor…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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