Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it.
Rainer Maria RilkeThe work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.
Rainer Maria RilkeLive your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
Rainer Maria RilkeChildren are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way-and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.
Rainer Maria Rilke