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A review by makennadykstra
Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
5.0
if rilke is routinely so late to answer his pen pal, then so too can i be late responding to emails?
“you are so young, so before all beginning, and i want to beg you, as much as i can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to 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. perhaps you will then gradually. without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer” (27)
“you are so young, so before all beginning, and i want to beg you, as much as i can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to 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. perhaps you will then gradually. without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer” (27)