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Poetry is the natural prayer of the human soul. – Rilke
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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 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 find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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"Human life is involved in the contrast between the ephemeral and the eternal. It is the poet's task to give permanence to what is fleeting, for in language, his special realm, the stamp of the eternal is impressed on the ephemeral." -- H.P. Rickman (in an article on Rilke and Eliot).