The Lovers

Portrait of Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875–1926

See how in their veins all becomes spirit; into each other they mature and grow. Like axles, their forms tremblingly orbit, round which it whirls, bewitching and aglow. Thirsters, and they receive drink, watchers, and see: they receive sight. Let them into one another sink so as to endure each other outright.

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