love the questions like locked rooms
"I beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient to all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
posted by pamela at 2:12 PM
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rilke has these great moments of insight... but he didnt live by them. too bad because i think there's a lot in these sentences that would have made-- would make-- life much easier.
thanks for the rilke postings, pam.
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