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[TO LOU ANDREAS-SALOME] I
I kept myself too open, I forgot that outside there are not just Things, not just animals at home within themselves, whose eyes do not reach out from their life's roundness differently than a picture from its frame; that all along I snatched into myself glances, opinion, curiosity. For all we know, eyes may appear in space, staring down. Only when hurled in you is my face not imperiled, as it grows into you, as it continues darkly forever onward within your sheltered heart. II
As one would hold a handkerchief in front of one's piled-up breath...no: as one would press it against a wound from which life, all in one spurt, is trying to escape--I held you close till you were red with me. Who can describe what happened to us? We made up for all that there had been no time for. I ripened strangely in every impulse of my unlived youth, and you, Beloved, found yourself beginning a kind of savage childhood in my heart. III
Remembering them will not suffice: there must, from all those moments, still remain a pure existence in my depths, the sediment from a measurelessly overfilled solution. For I am not recalling: what I am moves me because of you. It's not that I discover you at the sad, cooled-off places you left; the very fact that you're not there is warm with you and realer and is more than a privation. Yearning ends so often in vagueness. Why should I be desperate while your presence still can fall upon me, gently as moonlight on a seat beside the window. Rainer Maria Rilke
12:21 am - 04.18.11
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