Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.Rainer Maria Rilke
“Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
Poet · 1875 – 1926
Rainer Maria Rilke was an Austrian poet born in Prague, author of the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus. His Letters to a Young Poet, advising patience and solitude, have guided generations of artists; he wrote in German and later in French.
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