Poems are not simply emotions . . . they are experiences. For the sake of a single poem, you must see many cities, many people and things . . . and know the gestures which small flowers make when they open in the morning. You must be able to think back to streets in unknown neighborhoods, to unexpected encounters, and to partings you have long seen coming; to days of childhood whose mystery is still unexplained . . .; to mornings by the sea, to the sea itself, to seas, to nights of travel . . . and it is still not enough.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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