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How to Read Like You Mean It: Epigraph

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“Epigraph” in “How to Read Like You Mean It”

Sonst stünde dieser Stein entstellt und kurz

unter der Schultern durchsichtigem Sturz

und flimmerte nicht so wie Raubtierfelle

und bräche nicht aus allen seinen Rändern

aus wie ein Stern: denn da ist keine Stelle,

die dich nicht sieht.

—Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Archaïscher Torso Apollos,” in Der Neuen Gedichte

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