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Rainer Maria Rilke

“I want to utter you. I want to portray you
not with lapis or gold, but with colors made of apple bark.
There is no image I could invent
that your presence would not eclipse.”

Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
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Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God by Rainer Maria Rilke
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