“That’s when I want you—
you knower of my emptiness,
you unspeaking partner to my sorrow—
that’s when I need you,

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Ich bin derselbe noch, der kniete,” Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, trans. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy (Riverhead Books, 1996)”