You who never arrived
in my arms, Beloved, who were lost
from the start,
I don't even know what songs
would please you. I have given up trying
to recognize you in the surging wave of the next
moment.
-Rainer Maria Rilke, You Who Never Arrived (as translated by Stephen Mitchell) (1913-1914)
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Saturday, January 7, 2012
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