'Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.'
'Why should you want to exclude any anxiety, any grief, any melancholy from your life, since you do not know what it is that these conditions are accomplishing in you... You need to be as patient as one ill and as optimistic as one recuperating, for perhaps you are both.'
'Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous. Perhaps everything fearful is basically helplessness that seeks our help.'
RAINER MARIA RILKE - LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET (1922)
'Why should you want to exclude any anxiety, any grief, any melancholy from your life, since you do not know what it is that these conditions are accomplishing in you... You need to be as patient as one ill and as optimistic as one recuperating, for perhaps you are both.'
'Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous. Perhaps everything fearful is basically helplessness that seeks our help.'
RAINER MARIA RILKE - LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET (1922)
really enjoyed your writing and your insights and love the poetry you are introducing.
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