Saturday, 24 March 1900
DON'T be lured by those sounds
that fall to you out of the full wind;
wait, see if your strings
will attract hands that are eternal.
Those evolving are expelled by Time;
for Time is nothing but decay.
You can only grow in the Colossal,
only be solitary in the All.
(Excerpt from Diaries of a young poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, Translated by Edward Snow & Michael Winkler. Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1998)
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