Greek Love-Talk

Portrait of Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875–1926

What I have already learned as a lover, I see you, beloved, learning angrily; then for you it distantly departed, now your destiny stands in all the stars.

Over your breasts we will together contend: since as glowingly shining they've ripened, so also your hands desire to touch them and their own pleasure superintend.

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