A Poet Reflects

Break off my arms, I’ll take hold of you
with my heart as with a hand.

—Ranier Maria Rilke, from “Lösch mir die Augen aus: ich kann dich sehen” in Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy (Riverhead Books, 1996)

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