You see, I want a lot.
Perhaps I want everything:
the darkness that comes with every infinite fall
and the shivering blaze of every step up.
So many live on and want nothing
and are raised to the rank of prince
by the slippery ease of their light judgments.
But what you love to see are faces
that so work and feel thirst….
You have not grown old, and it is not too late
to dive into your increasing depths
where life calmly gives out its own secret.
Perhaps I want everything:
the darkness that comes with every infinite fall
and the shivering blaze of every step up.
So many live on and want nothing
and are raised to the rank of prince
by the slippery ease of their light judgments.
But what you love to see are faces
that so work and feel thirst….
You have not grown old, and it is not too late
to dive into your increasing depths
where life calmly gives out its own secret.
“
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Rainer Maria Rilke |
![billyjane:
Diane Arbus [?] by Melvin Sokolsky
in Harper’s Bazaar, April 1964
from devodotcom](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx9mta4RjK1qztk1wo1_1280.jpg)
