| ... I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. --from Letters to a Young Poet (1903) |
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Rainer Maria Rilke
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"My soul is a candle that burned away the veil; only the glorious duties of light I now have." "I did not have to ask m... -
" When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstances, revert at once to yourself, and don't loose the rhythm more than you can help. Y...
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This is a beautiful article, and an exhibit perhaps worth the "pilgrimage" to New York to see ... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/...
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