Who has not sat before his own...

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

--Rainer Maria Rilke

Truly to sing...

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

--Rainer Maria Rilke

For one human being to love another...

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

--Rainer Maria Rilke