You, my own deep soul, trust me. I will not betray you. My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Dann bete du, wie es dich dieser Iehrt,” Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, trans. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy (Riverhead Books, 1996) "