Rainer Maria Rilke: Perhaps I want everything

Perhaps I want everything:
the darkness that comes with every infinite fall
and the shimmering blaze of every step up.

– Rainer Maria Rilke, from the poem You see, I want a lot in The Book of the Hours, translated by Robert Bly

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