I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.
I want to free what waits within me
so that what no one has dared to wish for

may for once spring clear
without my contriving.
If this is arrogant, God forgive me,
but this is what I need to say.
May what I do flow from me like a river
no forcing and no holding back,
the way it is with children

Then in these swelling and ebbing currents
these deepening tides moving out, returning
I will sing to you as no one ever has,

streaming through widening channels into the open sea.



Rainer Maria Rilke