the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragr…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance. ✨ 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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He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never takes possession of the inexpressible fullness of the power of our existence. … ▶
And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.
There is time only to work slowly There is no time not to love
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.
I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2012). Letters to a Young Poet, p.13, Courier Corporation

the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance. ✨ 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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