The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater... - Rainer Maria Rilke

"No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger."

"But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all. Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too, just once. And never again. But to have been this once, completely, even if only once: to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing."

"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."

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

"It was not in me It came and wentI wanted to hold it It was held by wine(I no longer know what it was)"