Rilke
Rilke
Jan 12 2011 Filed in: Other Poets | Quotes
A few thoughts from Rilke I alluded to last evening. -mb
"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 now written in a very foreign 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."
I can't make every minute holy.
I don't want to stand before you like a thing,
shrewd and secretive.
I want my own will, and I want
simply to be with my will,
as it goes toward action,
and in the silent, sometimes hardly
moving times,
when something is coming near.
I want to be with those who know
secret things or else alone.
I want to unfold
I don't want to be folded anywhere,
because where I am folded, there I am a lie.
"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 now written in a very foreign 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."
I can't make every minute holy.
I don't want to stand before you like a thing,
shrewd and secretive.
I want my own will, and I want
simply to be with my will,
as it goes toward action,
and in the silent, sometimes hardly
moving times,
when something is coming near.
I want to be with those who know
secret things or else alone.
I want to unfold
I don't want to be folded anywhere,
because where I am folded, there I am a lie.