Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Things are not all so comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have us believe; most events are inexpressible, taking place in a realm which no word has ever entered, and more inexpressible than all else are works of art, mysterious existences, the life of which, while ours passes away, endures.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke from Letters to a Young Poet

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