Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the Angelic
Orders? And even if one were to suddenly take me to its heart, I would vanish into its stronger existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, that we are still able to bear, and we revere it so, because it calmly disdains to destroy us. Every Angel is terror. And so I hold myself back and swallow the cry ...... Duino Elegies, by Rainer Maria Rilke, (just one little piece of the First Elegie), translated by A.S. Kline
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