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Letters to a Young Poet
by Rainer Maria Rilke
"You are so young, all still lies ahead of you, and I should like to ask you, as best I can, dear Sir, to be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart and to try to love /the questions themselves/ like locked rooms, like books written in a foreign tongue. Do not now strive to uncover answers: they cannot be given you because you have not been able to live them. And what matters is to live everything. /Live/ the questions for now. Perhaps then you will gradually, without noticing it, live your way into the answer, one distant day in the future." (24)
"What goes on in your innermost being is worth all your love, this is what you must work on however you can and not waste too much time and too much energy on clarifying your attitude to other people." (36)
"It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it." (42)
"We have no reason to be mistrustful of our world, for it is not against us. If it holds terrors they are our terrors, if it has its abysses these abysses belong to us, if there are dangers then we must try to love them." (56)
"I am young, and there is much rebelliousness in me;—I cannot be certain that I act in accordance with my judgement in every case, where impatience and bitterness get the better of me; in my innermost being though, I know that subjection leads further than revolt." (82)
"What goes on in your innermost being is worth all your love, this is what you must work on however you can and not waste too much time and too much energy on clarifying your attitude to other people." (36)
"It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it." (42)
"We have no reason to be mistrustful of our world, for it is not against us. If it holds terrors they are our terrors, if it has its abysses these abysses belong to us, if there are dangers then we must try to love them." (56)
"I am young, and there is much rebelliousness in me;—I cannot be certain that I act in accordance with my judgement in every case, where impatience and bitterness get the better of me; in my innermost being though, I know that subjection leads further than revolt." (82)