“I love the dark hours of my being.
My mind deepens into them.
There I can find, as in old letters,
the days of my life, already lived,
and held like a legend, and understood.”

Source: Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

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Austrian poet and writer 1875–1926

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