L'homme à la tête carré

Time here is not a measure.
A year does not count,
ten years are nothing.
To be an artist is not to count.
It is to grow like the tree
that does not hasten its sap,
that stands firm,
trusting, against the great winds of spring,
without fearing that summer may not come.
Summer comes,
but it comes only to those who know how to wait,
as calmly as if they had eternity before them:
patience is everything.
— Rainer Maria Rilke