by Rainer Maria Rilke
I want to beg you, as much as I can,
to 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 foreign tongue.
Do not seek the answers, wich cannot
be given to you because you would not be able
to live with 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.
3 comments:
OH MY LANTA. PRAISE HIM! Ellen has a blog!!!!!!!
Woooooooooooooo!
nice pictures, and nice poem Ellen!
The title of your blog caught my eye this morning. As you likely know, it's a quotation from a truly great hymn by Katharina von Schlegel. (Today is the 312th anniversary of her birth.) I encourage you to drop by my daily blog, Wordwise Hymns for today, to learn a bit more, and hear a haunting and beautiful version of the song.
And incidentally, the tune would sound great on the harmonica. (Not difficult to learn to play. Ya just gotta remember when to breathe in and when to breathe out!)
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