Live the Questions: Rilke on Embracing Uncertainty and Doubt as a Stabilizing Force
by Maria Popova
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added by Sindhu Shivaprasad and · updated 6d ago
by Maria Popova
added by Sindhu Shivaprasad and · updated 6d ago
lili added 5mo ago
live your goddamn questions
In a 1903 letter to his protégé, the 19-year-old cadet and budding poet Franz Xaver Kappus, Rilke writes:
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... See more
Sindhu Shivaprasad added 1y ago