God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

Ralph Ellison
God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of...
God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of...
God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of...
God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of...
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Although these lines are misattributed to Wittgenstein, it is widely believed that they were written by the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. The poem itself has no meaning, but rather it consists of various rhymes and lines. If you take each piece of the poem and analyze it, you will be able to discover that none of them are random or unrelated. Each one of them contributes to the overall meaning.

For example, the phrase “God is love” contains an abundance of rhymes. The first word rhymes with “God” and the last word rhymes with “love”. The second word rhymes with “is” and “art” (a play on words).

There are even other words in between which all rhyme with each other.

Source: Juneteenth

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