Currently I am reading a biography about Rainer Maria Rilke, and as the Duino Elegies are some of the finest poetry I give you just the beginning....
Duino Elegies: The First Elegy
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.
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—Rainer Maria Rilke
