“For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it will your heart survive.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
Hasui Kawase (1883-1957) – Tennoji Temple in Osaka
“For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it will your heart survive.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
Hasui Kawase (1883-1957) – Tennoji Temple in Osaka
“And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been…”
Rainer Maria Rilke – Letter to Clara Rilke, 1 Jan 1907.
Art – Maxfield Parrish- Peace at twilight
“We are the bees of the invisible. We wildly collect the honey of the visible, to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
Art by Charles Courtney Curran.
“For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it will your heart survive.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
Hasui Kawase (1883-1957) – Tennoji Temple in Osaka
“You inherit the autumns, folded like festive clothing
in the memories of poets; and all the winters,
like abandoned fields, bequeath you their quietness.”
Rainer Maria Rilke – Book of Hours.
Cuno Amiet
“Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke