In the Naked Light I Saw

no one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. a man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access

-nietzsche

whom, if i cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders?  and even if one of them pressed me suddenly to his heart:  i’d be consumed in his stronger existence.  for beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure, and we stand in awe of it as it cooly disdains to destroy us.  every angel is terrifying 

–rilke

(6x6 Film)