No great art has ever been made without the artist having kn... - Rainer Maria Rilke

"Let everything happen to youBeauty and terrorJust keep goingNo feeling is final"

"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."

"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."

"Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write."

"A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead."