“You
are so young, you have not even begun, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir,
as well as I can, to have patience with everything that is unsolved in your
heart, and to try to cherish the questions themselves, liked closed rooms and
like books written in a very strange tongue. Do not search for the answers
which cannot be given you because you could not live them. It is a matter of
living everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually,
without noticing it, one distant day live right to the answer.” – Rainer Maria
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet.
That
book has always offered me council in troubled times no matter how many times I’ve
come back to it.
Yes, yes, yes!
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