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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
- Letters to a Young Poet

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I love the dark hours of my being
in which my senses are engrossed;
for in those hours, as in old letters,
I find my daily life already lived,
far off and done-with, like in legends.
From them I've learned I have room
for another, timeless, spacious life.
Sometimes I am like a tree
which, ripe and rustling over a grave
fulfills that dream which the departed boy
(through whom its warm roots are pushing)
had lost in sadnesses and songs.