The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experienc…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910, p.181, W. W. Norton & Company
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910, p.181, W. W. Norton & Company

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