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“If we picture the world‘s whole realm of experience, including all its areas that exceed us, as a complete circle, it is immediately obvious how much larger the dark sectors are, which stand for what we are incapable of experiencing, compared with the other arcs representing what is lit up by the searchlights of our senses.
Now the situation of someone in love is this: he feels himself suddenly placed in the center of the circle, that is to say👇

A Rilke quote for your morning, one that might require a pause for moment:

(On “The excited and endless cleverness of the age” empowering poets and poetry, 1913)

“And yet, who hasn‘t looked at it, at least for a moment, with distrust; asked himself if it is really concerned with fruitfulness, or only with a mechanically better and more exhaustive exploitation of the soul?”

Pragmatism wrapped in less useful poeticism; esoteric phrasing and spirituality makes it more work to derive the same life advice that other books might offer more clearly. I think the particular translators for this edition may be seeing more there for a modern audience than I could perceive. Radical choice to excise some of the text of the letters and tuck it in the back with commentary. If you need to edit and explain, how much use is it?

The kind of answer that would have been unsatisfactory in my teens and twenties, and makes all the sense in the world in my thirties.

My current book of poetry. I‘ve had this sitting around some 20 years now.

My favorite #BkBasedOnPainting and one of my favorites of all time! #MarchMagic @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

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