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"Poems amount to so little when you write them too early in y..." — Rainer Maria Rilke

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Poems amount to so little when you write them too early in your life. You ought to wait and gather sense and sweetness for a whole lifetime, and a long one if possible, and then, at the very end, you might perhaps be able to write ten good lines.

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