Archaic Torso and Angel

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Rilke's Archaic Torso of Apollo

We cannot know his legendary head
with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso
is still suffused with brilliance from inside,
like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low,

Maya Angelou's Touched by an Angel
We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness