Works of art are indeed always products of having been in danger, of having gone to the very end in an experience, to where man can go no further.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- Rainer M Rilke, (Dec 4 1875-1926), Austro-German poet; He became internationally famous with such works as Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus.