“She who reconciles the ill-matched threads
Of her life, and weaves them gratefully
Into a single cloth –
It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hall
And clears it for a different celebration.”

—  Rainer Maria Rilke

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Austrian poet and writer 1875–1926

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