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Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes: Our age has built itself vast reservoirs of power / formless as the straining energy that it wrests from the earth.
         

Our age has built itself vast reservoirs of power / formless as the straining energy that it wrests from the earth.


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