Angelus Silesius: Friend, whatever you are, you must not stand still:

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Friend, whatever you are, you must not stand still:

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by Angelus Silesius
(1624 - 1677) Timeline

English version by
Gabriel Rosenstock

Original Language
German

Christian : Catholic

17th Century

Friend, whatever you are, you must not stand still:
One must from one light into the other spill

-- from Haiku: The Gentle Art of Disappearing, by Gabriel Rosenstock

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Themes

Light

Recommended Books

	The Angelic Verses: From the Book of Angelus Silesius, Translated by Frederick Frank
	Angelus Silesius, by Jeffrey L. Sammons
	Angelus Silesius: The Cherubinic Wanderer (Classics of Western Spirituality), by Angelus Silesius / Translated by Maria Shrady
	Angelus Silesius' Cherubinischer Wandersmann: A Modern Reading With Selected Translations (Renaissance and Baroque Studies and Texts), by Maria M. Bohm
	The Book of Angelus Silesius, Translated by Frederick Frank

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