It is life in slow motion, it’s heart in reverse, it’s hope-and-a-half: too much and too little at once. It’s a train that suddenly stops with no station around, and we can hear the cricket, and, leaning out the carriage door, we vainly contemplate a wind we feel that stirs the blooming meadows, the meadows made imaginary by this stop.
Taken from “The Wait” in Rilke: Poems (Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets Series) by Rainer Maria Rilke, Alfred A. Knopf, 1996, (p. 100)