Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.
Rainer Maria RilkeAnd when suddenly the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry, uttered the words: โHe has turned roundโ โ she comprehended nothing and said softly: โWho?
Rainer Maria RilkeWhy don't you conceive of God as an ally who is coming, who has been approaching since time began, the one who will someday arrive, the fruit of a tree whose leaves we are? Why not project his birth into the future, and live your life as an excruciating and lyrical moment in the history of a prodigious pregnancy?
Rainer Maria Rilke