I have not had the best of sleep, and was just hesitating whether I should come to-day, in spite of Vischer and ice. Now, however, I think of looking in for half an hour.
I have much on my heart — yet everything, again, is but the one thing without which, poorest, I should have no footing more upon this earth. That one thing!
A thousand greetings.
Source: Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905), No. 38