"Live for awhile in the books you love. Learn from them what is worth learning, but above all love..."

"Live for awhile in the books you love. Learn from them what is worth learning, but above all love them. This love will be returned to you a thousand times over. Whatever your life may become, these books — of this I am certain — will weave through the web of your unfolding. They will be among the strongest of all threads of your experiences, disappointments, and joys."

- Rilke, Viareggio, April 5, 1903, Letters to a Young Poet (via uponswallows)