try to be speechless for a minute

painting by Dustin Ortiz

"Only the individual who is solitary is like a thing placed under profound laws,

and when he goes out in the morning that is just beginning,

or looks out into the evening that is full of happening,

and if he feels what is going on there, then all status drops from him

as from a dead man, though he stands in the midst of sheer life."
-Rilke