Gaston BachelardRilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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Rilke wrote, “These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.” In this quote, Rilke captures the beauty of the space between trees.
Source: The Poetics Of Space
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