"Were you not always distracted by yearning,as though some lover were about to appear?Let yourself..."

“Were you not always distracted by yearning,

as though some lover were about to appear?



Let yourself feel it, that yearning.

It connects you with those

who have sung it through the ages,

sung especially of love unrequited.

Shouldn’t this oldest of sufferings

finally bear fruit for us?”

- Rainer Maria Rilke, from the First Duino Elegy (via gypsji)