Tag Archives: rainer maria Rilke

Protecting the questions and living into the answers

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Nate

You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves … Continue reading →

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Rilke – being with the secret things

Posted on January 7, 2009 by Nate

I am too alone in the world, and not alone enough to make every moment holy. I am too tiny in this world, and not tiny enoughjust to lie before you like a thing, shrewd and secretive.     I want my … Continue reading →

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When questioning becomes trendy

Posted on February 18, 2008 by Nate

Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the patron saints of The Shepherd and the Knucklehead, writes in Letters to a young Poet: You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, … Continue reading →

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Of the inexpressible realm

Posted on January 19, 2008 by Nate

Things are not so comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have us believe; most events are inexpressible, taking place in a realm which no word has ever entered, and more inexpressible than all else are works of art, mysterious … Continue reading →

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