Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky! ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke…

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Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky! ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke, Walter W. Arndt (1989). The best of Rilke: 72 form-true verse translations with facing originals, commentary, and compact biography ; translated by Walter Arndt ; foreword by Cyrus Hamlin, Dartmouth College
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Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky! ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke, Walter W. Arndt (1989). The best of Rilke: 72 form-true verse translations with facing originals, commentary, and compact biography ; translated by Walter Arndt ; foreword by Cyrus Hamlin, Dartmouth College

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