". . .simply to be here is so muchand because what is here seems to need us,this vanishing world that concerns us strangely—us, the most vanishing of all. Oncefor each, only once. Once and no more.And we too: just once. Never again. Butto have lived even once,to have been of Earth—that cannot be taken from us."from “The Ninth Duino Elegy” by Rainer Maria Rilke