”[…] Perhaps we are here in order to say: house,
bridge, fountain, gate, pitcher, fruit-tree, window—
at most: column, tower…But to say them, you must 
understand
oh to say them more intensely than the Things themselves
ever dreamed of existing.
[…]
Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future
grows any smaller…Superabundant being
wells up in my heart”

—Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies