Friday, August 18, 2017

"Don't be afraid to suffer,
take your heaviness,
and give it back to the earth's own weight.
The mountains are heavy,
the oceans are heavy..."

-RAINER MARIA RILKE.
(Excerpt from "Sonnets to Orpheus" 1922-1923.




"Portrait of Victor Hugo" by Auguste Rodin
Marble, circa 1840.