It was not a noisy wind but the kind that suggests something very big and thin fresh from the horror of Infinite Space.
Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
The Poetics of Space
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Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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