Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders? and even if one of them pressed me suddenly to his heart: I\'d be consumed in that overwhelming existence. -from ``The First Elegy`` Over the last fifteen years, in his two volumes of.
Every angel is terrifying.
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure, and we stand in awe of it as it coolly disdains to destroy us.
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders? and even if one of them pressed me suddenly to his heart: I\'d be consumed in that overwhelming existence