Friday, June 03, 2005

overheard

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. 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."

~Rainer Maria Rilke

2 comments:

g13 said...

actually, i haven't read his work. i ran across the quote in an excerpt of a book by william sloan coffin.

if i was to read him, however, i would be interested to know where to begin.

joolz said...

I have been reminded of the point. This quotation is beautiful. Thanks for sharing it.