You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone, and then no one outside learns of you. But the darkness pulls in everything: shapes and fires, animals and myself, how easily it gathers them! - powers and people - and it is possible a great energy is moving near me. I have faith in nights.
Rainer Maria RilkeI know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.
Rainer Maria RilkeThere are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
Rainer Maria RilkeWhat do the contours of your body mean, laid out like the lines on a hand, so that I no longer see them except as fate?
Rainer Maria Rilke