Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
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About Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke was a 19th-century Austrian poet and writer. RenĂ© Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was an Austrian poet and novelist. Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language. Read more on Wikipedia →
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