Gib mir noch eine Weile Zeit / Ich will die Dinge lieben wie keiner noch
Rainer Maria Rilke

Give me a little more time / I will love things like no other has yet

(Bana biraz daha zaman ver / Şeyleri kimsenin sevmediği gibi seveceğim trans. Fatih Özgüven)

in front of myself...

'It seems to me that I am not in front of my house, but in front of myself, in front of myself sleeping, and that I at the same time have the joj of sleeping profoundly and of guarding over myself as sentry.'

Franz Kafka, 'The Burrow' in Metamorphosis and Other Stories