Live the questions now
You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
–Ranier Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (1929)
November 15th, 2010 at 10:41 am
Beautiful! I look forward to your posts from this book.
November 16th, 2010 at 12:38 am
I love this quote! Definitely how I feel now.