I have often thought about you and imagined how quiet you must be in your solitary fort up among the empty mountains over which those great south winds rush, as if they wanted to devour them in mighty chunks.
The silence must be immense
To be able to receive such sounds and movements () joined by noise of the sea, present in the distance ()
Pre-historic harmony ()
Let this marvellous solitude work on you ()
A solitude which will never be deleted from your life.
In all that lies before you to experience and do,
It will continue as an anonymous influence ()
Perhaps like the way the blood of our ancestors moves unceasingly within us and mingles with our own
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)
Paris, on the second day of Christmas, 1908
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