 In My Belief : Essays on Life and Art , German novelist Hermann Hesse ( 1877 – 1962 ) describes Rilke as evolving within the confines of exploring his existential problems , that " at each stage now and again the miracle occurs , his delicate , hesitant , anxiety @-@ prone person withdraws , and through him resounds the music of the universe ; like the basin of a fountain he becomes at once instrument and ear . " 
