[…] one very dark night Rilke and two friends perceive ‘the lighted casement of a distant hut, the hut that stands quite alone on the horizon before one comes to fields and marshlands.’ This image of solitude, symbolized by a single light moves the poet’s heart in so personal a way that it isolates him from his companions. Speaking of this group of three friends, Rilke adds: ‘Despite the fact that we were very close to one another, we remained three isolated individuals, seeing night for the first time.’
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| — | from: the poetics of space by gaston bachelard |
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