"With all its eyes the creature
sees the open.  Our eyes alone are
as if turned back, and placed all around,
like traps, encircling its free escape.
What is outside we know only
from the face of the animal; and we even turn
the young child around and force it to look
back at created things, not at that openness
dwelling in the creature's face."
—from Rainer Maria Rilke in The Essential Rilke, (Trans., Galway Kinnell & Hannah Liebmann), The Ecco Press, 1999, p.125