Letters To A Young Poet / Rainer Maria Rilke

"...to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to 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 - #4, Worpswede, near Bremen, July 16, 1903)





"Kalbinde çözülmeden kalan her şey için sabırlı ol. Soruların kendisini sevmeye çalış, kilitli odalar ve yabancı lisanda yazılmış kitaplar gibi. Cevapları şimdi arama. Şu anda cevaplar sana verilemez, çünkü sen henüz onlarla yaşayamazsın. Bu her şeyi yaşama meselesidir. Şu anda senin, soruyu yaşaman gerekiyor. Belki daha ilerde, farkına bile varmadan, günün birinde kendini cevabını yaşarken bulacaksın."

Rainer Maria Rilke - (Genç Bir Şaire Mektuplar)

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