Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are.
Rainer Maria RilkeIn one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation.
Rainer Maria RilkeIt is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
Rainer Maria Rilke