"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

15 September 2017

Yet.


I am living just as the century ends.
A great leaf, that God and you and I
have covered in writing
turns now, overhead, in strange hands.
We feel the sweep of it like wind.
We see the brightness of a new page
where everything can yet happen.
Unmoved by us, the fates take its measure
and look at one another, saying nothing.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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