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I live my life in growing orbits
which move out over the things of the world.
Perhaps I can never achieve the last,
but that will be my attempt.
I am circling around God, around the ancient tower
and have been circling for a thousand years
and I still do not know if I am a falcon, a storm
or a great song.
–Rainer Maria Rilke
The Book of Hours, excerpt
Robert Bly translation
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I
beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and
try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or
books written in a very foreign language.
Don’t
search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because
you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live
everything.
Live
the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will
gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
–Rainer Maria Rilke,
Letters To A Young Poet
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