“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.” --Sylvia Plath

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Rainy afternoon follow-up to this morning's post

Recently a friend gave me a magnet with the following quote from German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and it reminded me of what I wrote about this morning, about finding/not finding answers, etc. I don't need all the answers, but I do revel in mysteries... This quote is from Rilke's legendary Letters to a Young Poet:
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 everythieng. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer....
Now that is something that can be interpreted in a multitude of ways.

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