Ah, not to be cut off,
not through the slightest partition
shut out from the law of the stars.
The inner — what is it?
if not the intensified sky,
hurled through with birds and deep
with the winds of homecoming.

German Original

Ach, nicht getrennt sein,
nicht durch so wenig Wandung
vom Sternen-Maß.
Innres, was ists?
Wenn nicht gesteigerter Himmel,
durchworfen mit Vögeln und tief
von Winden der Heimkehr.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Aus: Die Gedichte 1922 bis 1926 (Paris, Sommer 1925)

The painting “Wally” by Egon Schiele just returned back to Vienna after an odyssey of 70 years and an extensive litigation in New York. It can be visited at the Leopold Museum