‘The Raven’ by Helen C. Murphy
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Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels’ hierarchies? And even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.”
‘The First Elegy’ Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell
“The Nephilim were on earth in those days – And also afterward – when the sons of God went to The daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.”
Genesis 6:4
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