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Rainer Maria Rilke
(4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926 / Prague / Czech Republic)
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  You, Darkness

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  You, darkness, that I come from
I love you more than all the fires
that fence in the world,
for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone
and then no one outside learns of you.

But the darkness pulls in everything-
shapes and fires, animals and myself,
how easily it gathers them! -
powers and people-

and it is possible a great presence is moving near me.

I have faith in nights.


Rainer Maria Rilke

Submitted Date Saturday, December 27, 2003
Submitted Date Tuesday, March 16, 2010



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Malcolm Evison (3/8/2006 8:46:00 AM)
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Hauntingly beautiful, it wraps one in the spell of night-time.
 
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