This comes from Rainier Maria Rilke's "Duino Elegies" and is specifically from the ninth elegy, lines 36-38:
...Is not the secret purpose
of this sly earth, in urging a pair of lovers,
just to make everything leap with ecstasy in them?
Nothing great in my own personal revelation interpretation, but it made me smile, and sometimes smiles are nice.
[This is from the JB Leishman and Stephen Spender translation.]
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