Malcolm Guite’s sonnet on Jacob and the Angel mentions the love the simultaneously wounds and heals.
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The Eternal Doesn’t Want To Be Bent by Us
Rilke draws on the story of Jacob and the Angel in his poem “The Man Watching.” We grow, he writes, by “being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.”
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