Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.

The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.

So i learned both to accept myself and to aim beyond myself

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Never being, but always at the edge of Being.

Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.

If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.