Barbra Streisand and Elliott Gould during their honeymoon at the Beverly Hills Hotel, September 1963.

They’ve been smiling at each other all night.

”Jeder Engel ist schrecklich.  Und dennoch, weh mir, ansing ich euch, fast tödliche Vögel der Seele, wissend um euch.“

“Every angel is terrible. And yet, alas, I welcome you, almost fatal birds of the soul, knowing about you.” 

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Duineser Elegien: Die zweite Elegie (1923)

“I really don’t know what gave me the idea of angels. One day I wrote “angels” in my notebook, and the next day “the unemployed.” Maybe it was because I was reading Rilke at the time—nothing to do with films—and realizing as I read how much of his writing is inhabited by angels. Reading Rilke every night, perhaps I got used to the idea of angels being around.”