Rilke

"How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginnings of all peoples? The myths about dragons that turn into princesses. Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible in our lives is only something helpless that wants help from us.

"So you must not be frightened when a cold wind rises up larger than any you have ever seen; when a restlessness, like light and cloud-shadow, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you; that life has not forgotten you. That it holds you in its hands; it will not let you fall."

-Ranier Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet