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Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, “widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets,” writing in both verse and highly lyrical prose.

Poem: Go to the Limits of Your Longing

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Poem: Go to the Limits of Your Longing

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:   You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me.   Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I...