Lindsey's review
Letters to a Young Poet
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Lindsey's review
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Lindsey's review
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Favorite quotes from first reading:
"I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth."
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and books written in foreign languages. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live with them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day."
"Therefore dear friend, embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near you are distant."
"To love is also good, for love is difficult. For one human being to love another is perhaps the most difficult task of all, the epitome the ultimate test. It is that striving- ...more
"I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth."
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and books written in foreign languages. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live with them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day."
"Therefore dear friend, embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near you are distant."
"To love is also good, for love is difficult. For one human being to love another is perhaps the most difficult task of all, the epitome the ultimate test. It is that striving- ...more
