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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.”
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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