"You must not think That we are made of stuff so fat and dull That we can let our beard be shook with danger And think it pastime."

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Spring has again returned. The Earth is like a child that knows many poems. Many, O so many. For the hardship of such long learning she receives the prize. Strict was her teacher. The white in the old man's beard pleases us. Now, what to call green, to call blue, we dare to ask: She knows, She knows!

— Rainer Maria Rilke