<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e200d5c6-efa7-49f1-9573-2bea6e41afa2/C32AD28E-3C2C-44F7-844D-CF04BFF9C40C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~felluga/rilke.html" href="http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~felluga/rilke.html" style="font-size: 11px;">web.ics.purdue.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~felluga/rilke.html"><P>Why, if it's possible to spend this span of existence as laurel, a little darker than all other greens, with little waves on every leaf-edge (like the smile of a breeze), why, then, must we be human and, shunning destiny, long for it?...</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~felluga/rilke.html"><UL> Oh, not because happiness, </UL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~felluga/rilke.html">that over-hasty profit of loss impending, <I>exists</I>. Not from curiosity, or to practise the heart, that would also be in the laurel... but because to be here is much, and the transient Here seems to need and concern us strangely. Us, the most transient. Everyone <I>once</I>, <I>once</I> only. Just <I>once</I> and no more. And we also <I>once</I>, Never again. But this having been <I>once</I>, although only <I>once</I>, to have been of the earth, seems irrevocable.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~felluga/rilke.html">And so we drive ourselves and want to achieve it, want to hold it in our simple hands, in the surfeited gaze and in the speechless heart. want to become it. give it to whom? Rather keep all forever...but to the other realm, alas, what can be taken?</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C32AD28E-3C2C-44F7-844D-CF04BFF9C40C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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