I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them. ✨ Rainer…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
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Every angel is terrifying. ✨ Duino Elegies no. 1 (written 1912) (translation by Stephen Mitchell)
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Painting is something that takes place among the colors. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2002). Letters on Cézanne, p.66, Macmillan

I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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