https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:12:06 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/rilke-rainer-maria/32015/ https://wist.info/rilke-rainer-maria/32015/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2015 17:08:17 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=32015 And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what it has to bestow upon those who demand of it necessary, serious, and great things.

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1963) German poet
Letter (1907-01-01) to Clara Rilke
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Usually paraphrased: "And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been." ]]> https://wist.info/rilke-rainer-maria/32015/feed/ 6 32015