Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders?
And even if one of them pressed me
suddenly to his heart; I'd be consumed
in his stronger existence. For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure
and we stand in awe of it as it coolly disdains
to destroy us. Every angel is terrifying.
And so i check myself and swallow the luring call
of dark sobs. Alas, whom can we turn to
in our need? Not angels, not humans,
and the sly animals see at once
how little at home we are
in the interpreted world. 

--Elegy 1, Duino Elegies, Rainer Maria Rilke

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