Long walks in the woods, going barefoot day and night, a lamp in the evening, a warm room, and the moon, whenever it suits her, and the stars when they are out, and otherwise just sitting and listening to the rain or to the storm as though it were God himself.
Rainer Maria Rilke, in a letter to Lou Salomé written c. December 1912, from Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters
