04/19/2022
“Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart… Try to love the questions themselves… Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given 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 answers.” —Rainer Maria Rilke, “Letters to a Young Poet"
Here’s a poem with some questions worth living. I read it last night as a way of reviewing my day, happy with some of my answers, not with others. Tonight, I'll read the poem again.
If I live today with its questions in mind, who knows? Maybe tonight I'll find that I took at least small steps toward better answers.
P.S. The poem comes from Jeanne Lohmann’s 2003 collection, "The Light of Invisible Bodies." Learn more at http://tiny.cc/0frquz. The illustration is by William Siegel, from "The Jumping-off Place" by Marian Hurd McNeely (1930).
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