If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it blame yourself admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches because for the creator there is no poverty and no indifferent place. (Rainer Maria Rilke)

If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it blame yourself admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches because for the creator there is no poverty and no indifferent place.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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