… Ah, poems amount to so little when you write them too early in your life. You ought to wait and gather sense and sweetness for a whole lifetime, and a long one if possible, and then, at the very end, you might perhaps be able to write ten good lines. For poems are not, [...]
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Poem of the Day: For the Sake of a Single Poem
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Poem of the Day: God Speaks
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God Speaks God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: (continue…) -Ranier Maria Rilke 4X1: Works by Tristan Tzara, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jean-Pierre Duprey, and Habib Tengour
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