Wednesday, July 7, 2010

summer reading

I've decided I need to read some of Rainer Maria Rilke's work this summer. I've come across a few beautiful quotes by him lately and am needing to make a trip to Powell's to grab some of his books...

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you 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 answer.


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.


photos: hotairballoon and boy

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