Human life - indeed
all life - is poetry.
It's we who live it,
unconsciously, day by day,
like scenes in a play,
yet in its inviolable wholeness
it lives us,
it composes us.
This is something far different
from the old cliche "Turn
your life into a work of art";
we are works of art -
but we are not the artist.

- Lou Andreas-Salome