When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the
sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its
noise and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered
and confused.
-- Rainer Maria
Rilke.
[letter]
To Clara Rilke, Hotel Florence, Viareggio presso Pisa; March 27,
1903 (from letter #42 in
Letters of Rainer Maria
Rilke, Vol I (1892–1910), p. 94, published in 1945 and
translated by Jane Bannard Greene and M. D. Herter Norton.