Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@SophiaCycles I prefer the Mitchell translation: "For 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. Every angel is terrifying." ?s=20

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 5 Jun 2021

@KathySaranpa Rilke, Duino Elegies: "For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.” ?s=20

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Quoted by@EsmeLKPartridge Lovely. Upon this theme, John O'Donohue's, 'Beauty: The Invisible Embrace', surely describes one of the more luminous weddings of metaphysical intellect to supernal eloquence among us. And what of cyberspatial beauty, eh? An essential language of one world unity, isn't it?Quoted byend/ act, just once, with beauty and courage @unitethepoor #unitingtheglobalpoor