"May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and……" — Rainer Maria Rilke

"May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings. May the tears that stream down my face make me more radiant: may my hidden weeping bloom.... How we waste our afflictions!... [T]hey're really our wintering foliage, our dark greens of meaning, one of the seasons of the clandestine year—; not only a season—: they're site, settlement, shelter, soil, abode."

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods. — Alexander Pope
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