rainer maria rilke

(quadro de shirazeh houshiary, "untitled", 2007)


"O stars,
isn'it from you that the lover's desire for the face
of his beloved arises? Doesn't his secret insight
into her pure features come from the pure constellations?" (1)

rainer maria rilke


(1) RILKE, Rainer Maria apud PULLMAN, Philip - The Amber Spyglass. London: Scholastic Press, 2001. ISBN 0-439-99414-4. pg. VII.