Girls, there are poets who learn from you to say, what you, in your al…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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Girls, there are poets who learn from you to say, what you, in your aloneness, are; and they learn through you to live distantness, as the evenings through the great stars become accustomed to eternity. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). The Book of Images, p.17, North Point Press
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Girls, there are poets who learn from you to say, what you, in your aloneness, are; and they learn through you to live distantness, as the evenings through the great stars become accustomed to eternity. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). The Book of Images, p.17, North Point Press

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