This Helicoidal Stairway is in the Vatican Museum and was designed by Michelangelo.
I discovered Rainer Maria Rilke about 15 year ago through his book “Letters to a Young Poet”. It became my bible and often is still found in my handbag. Whatever is happening in life, it seems one of these letters gives the perfect inspiration, comfort or wisdom. Beneath the words beats the wonderful pulse of Rilke’s being.
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Rome, October 29 1903
“………………………….Waters infinitely full of life move along the ancient aqueducts into the great city and dance in the many city squares over white basins of stone and spread out in large, spacious pools and murmur by day and lift up their murmuring to the night, which is vast here and starry and soft with winds. And there are gardens here, unforgettable boulevards, and staircases designed by Michelangelo, staircases constructed on the pattern of downward gliding waters and, as they descend, widely giving birth to step out of step as if it were wave out of wave. Through such impressions one gathers oneself, wins oneself back from the exacting multiplicity, which speaks and chatters there and one slowly learns to recognize the very few Things in which something eternal endures that one can love and something solitary that one can gently take part in”.
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