Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.
Rainer Maria Rilke: Selected Poems (ed. Psychology Press, 1986) - ISBN: 9780415904056
Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.
Rainer Maria Rilke: Selected Poems (ed. Psychology Press, 1986) - ISBN: 9780415904056