By Rainer Maria Rilke
Submitted by Echolocation
Date: 2001 Sep 26
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from _Letters to a Young Poet_

Once the realization is accepted that even between the
closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist,
a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they
succeed in loving the distance between them
which makes it possible for each to see the other
whole against the sky.