Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from.
Rainer Maria RilkeTo all that is used-up, and to all the muffled and dumb creatures in the world's full reserve, the unsayable sums, joyfully add yourself, and cancel the count.
Rainer Maria RilkeMay what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.
Rainer Maria RilkeI live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.
Rainer Maria Rilke