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8 quotes · Letters to a Young Poet, Book of Hours, Duino Elegies, The First Elegy, Letters to a Young Poet (Letter Eight)
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.
Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust.
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them.