And we, who have always thought
Of happiness as rising, would feel
The emotion that almost overwhelms us
Whenever a happy thing falls.
Rainer Maria Rilke was one of the most important German poets of the 20th century. He passed out because of leukemia but they only found out shortly before his death. He believed he died of an infection he contracted when he pricked himself on a rose thorn.
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