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On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Leaf Is Turning Like a Sentury Is Entering

eno something that i have identified with in the last period that wasn't there for me when rilka entered my life, is that he was a turn century person. Just as we have become turn of century people. In his letters to this young poet, he said, the leaf is turning like a sentury is entering, just at that moment, at the becoming of the twentieth century. And you could feel his awe and a troubled sense e what is in store, and the fates that are turning this page to the twentieth century look at each other and say nothing.

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