Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.Rainer Maria Rilke
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.”
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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