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RE: thought for the moment





> > "be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love 
>the
> > questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written 
>in
> > a very strange 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..."
> > - --ranier maria rilke
> >

candace wrote:

>I'm a huge fan of Rilke and own a few of his works, but I don't recognize
>this.  Where is it from?

amy joy replies:
i believe it's from "letters to a young poet," which is a lovely work of 
prose.

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