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This is a poem called
"Circle of Struggle"

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The book has an epigraph
from Rilke which I'll read.

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It's from one of
the Duino Elegies.

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And it goes in one translation.

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"For beauty is nothing
but beginning of terror

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was still just able to bear.

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And why we adore it so
is because it serenely

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disdains to destroy us."

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Satchel Paige
somewhere has a series

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of six rules for staying young.

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I think the sixth one
goes, don't look back,

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something might
be gaining on you.

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