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" You darkness, that I come from,
I love you more than all the fires
that fence in the world,
for the fire makes
a circle of light for everyone,
and then no one outside learns of you.

But the darkness pulls in everything:
shapes and fires, animals and myself,
how easily it gathers them! –
powers and people –

and it is possible a great energy
is moving near me.

I have faith in nights. "

Rainer Maria Rilke , The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke


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Rainer Maria Rilke quote : You darkness, that I come from,<br />I love you more than all the fires<br />that fence in the world,<br />for the fire makes<br />a circle of light for everyone,<br />and then no one outside learns of you.<br /><br />But the darkness pulls in everything:<br />shapes and fires, animals and myself,<br />how easily it gathers them! –<br />powers and people –<br /><br />and it is possible a great energy<br />is moving near me.<br /><br />I have faith in nights.