You must suffer long, not knowing what,
until suddenly, out of bitterly chewed fruit
your suffering's taste comes forth in you.
Then almost instantly you'll love what's tasted. No one
will ever talk you out of it.
Paris, 1913
by Rainer Maria Rilke (translated from the German by Edward Snow)
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