The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were ope…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. I feel closer to what language can't reach. With my senses, as with birds, I climb into the windy heaven... in the ponds broken off from the sky. . . ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2004). Sonnets to Orpheus, p.32, Shambhala Publications
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