Rainier Maria Rilke, in his 'Letters to a Young Poet,' writes: 'Do not allow yourself to be confused in your aloneness by something within you that wishes to be released from it; this very wish, if you will calmly and deliberately use it as a tool, will help to expand your solitude into far distant realms.' He argues that struggling with one's authentic aloneness is not something to escape but to embrace and expand through.