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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Duino Elegies

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to see meanings that clung together once floating away
in every direction. And being dead is hard work
and full of retrieval before one can gradually feel
a trace of eternity. -Though the living are wrong to believe
in the too-sharp distinctions which they themselves have created.
Angels (they say) don't know whether it is the living
they are moving among or the dead. The eternal torrent
whirls all ages along in it through both realms
forever and their voices are d...Read more of this...

by Rilke, Rainer Maria

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