Thought Traffic

"We can't know
what the divine intelligence
has in mind!

Who am I,
standing in the midst of this
thought-traffic?"

-Rumi, Excerpt from The Long String

Once

Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more.
And we also once. Never again. But this having been
once, although only once, to have been of the earth,
seems irrevocable.


Rilke, Duino Elegies