Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves...
Do not 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...gradually, without noticing it,
live along some distant day into the answer.
Rainer Maria RilkeLetters to a Young Poet, Letter No. 4
2 comments:
Poetry really isn't my thing. No offence to you or Mr. Rilke, but that sounded like an extra corny commencement speech. I feel an urge to throw a tasseled hat into the air. :P
It's not poetry, goofball... it's an excerpt from a letter. And if you had any answer-less questions bouncing around in your head that you were TRYING to love (like I do), maybe you'd appreciate it more. :)
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