Status Updates From Letters to a Young Poet

“Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where it all comes from and where it is leading? You well know you are in a period of transition and want nothing more than to be transformed.“

“The demands that the hard work of love makes on our development are larger than life, and as beginners we are not a match for them. But if we can hold out and take this love upon us as a burden and an apprenticeship […] , then perhaps a small advance and some relief will be sensible to those who come long after us. That would mean a great deal.”