Status Updates From Letters to a Young Poet

quietly, in all seriousness, keep growing in your own way. The biggest obstacle to that development would be for you to look outward, to expect outside answers to questions that only your innermost feelings in your quietest moments have any chance of answering.

“be patient toward all that us unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.”