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Letters To A Young Poet

Alex Hickman
Sep 22, 2022
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A poem that I’d like to share.


(James W Johnson)


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.


Do not 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 (Austrian poet)

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