Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made o…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). Selected Poems
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