() And those who come together in the night-time () are carrying out a work in collecting sweetness, profundity and strength for the song of some poet yet to come, who will rise up to speak unutterable pleasures.

() They summon up the future; and even if they err and embrace one another blindly, the future will come all the same, a new creature will appear, and based on the chance act that seems to accomplished here the law comes into being according to which a resistant and vigorous seed forces its way through to the egg moving forward to receive it. ()

Perhaps the sexes are more related than we think, and the great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in man and woman, freed of all sense of error and disappointment, seeking one another out not as opposites, but as brothers and sisters and neighbours, and they will join together as human beings ()

Everything () the () individual can prepare for and build now ()

Believe in a love that is stored up for you like an inheritance, and trust that in this love there is a strength and benediction out of whose sphere you do not need to issue, even if your journey is a long one. ()

Solitude () will be a hold and home (), () leading from it you will find all the paths you need.

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke

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4/4, p01

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() Sex is difficult, true. But difficult things are what we were set to do ()

Win () a relationship towards sex that is wholly your own (not influenced by convention and custom)

Physical desire is a sensual experience, no different from pure contemplation, or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit sates the tongue;

It is a great and endless feeling, which is granted to us,

A way of knowing the world,

The fullness, and the splendor of all knowledge.

And that we receive this pleasure cannot be a bad thing; what is bad is the way almost all of us misuse the experience and waste it () as s stimulus to the tired parts of our lives, as a distraction instead of as a concentration of ourselves into climactic points,

Eating, too, has been turned away from its true nature ()

All the profound, simple necessities in which life sustains itself have been similarly obscured.

But the individual can clarify them for him (/her, p01) self ()

() If only mankind could embrace this mystery, which penetrates the earth right into the smallest elements ()

() If only mankind could hold its own fertility in awe,

Which is one and the same whether it manifests in the spirit or in the flesh.

For creativity of the spirit has its origin in the physical kind, is of one nature with it and only () a less fleeting version of the carnal sort of sex .

‘The desire to be creator, to engender, to give form’

Is nothing without its continuing, palpable confirmation and realization in the world ()

And the pleasure it gives is only as unutterably fine and abundant as it is because it is

Full of inherited memories of () engendering and bearing ()

In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive and lend it grandeur and height.

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke

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3/4, p01

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() I should like to ask you to the best I can, dear Sir (/Madam. p01), to be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms, like books written in a foreign tongue.

Do not now strive to uncover answers; they cannot be given to you because you have not been able to live them. And what matters is to live everything.

Live the questions for now. Perhaps then you will gradually, without noticing it, live your way into the answer, one distant day in the future ().

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke

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2/4, p01

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() Read as little as possible in the way of aesthetics and criticism -

It will either be partisan views, fossilized and made meaningless in its lifeless rigidity, or it will be neat wordplay. Where one opinion will triumph one day and the opposite the next. ()

() Nothing is less likely to reach () than criticism.

With regards to such disquisition () trust yourself and your instincts;

Even if you go wrong in your judgement, the natural growth of your inner life will gradually, over time, lead you to other other insights.

Allow your verdicts their own, quiet, untroubled development, which like all progress must come from deep within and cannot be forced or accelerated. Everything must must be carried to term before it is born. ()

To let every impression and the germ of every feeling within come to completion inside,

In the dark, in the unsayable ()

And to wait with deep humility and patience for the hour when a new clarity is delivered;

That alone is to live ()

These things cannot be measured by time, a year has no meaning, and ten years are nothing.

To be () means: () to grow and ripen like a tree which does not hurry the flow of the sap and stands at ease in the spring gales without fearing that no summer will follow.

It will come. ()

To those who are patient, who are simply there in their vast, quiet tranquility, as if eternity lay before them.

It is lesson I learn every day ()

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke

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1/4, p01

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Which word would you use to refer to yourself? "I", presumably, in the singular. And how about you and a group of people? "We", of course, in the plural.

But how about you and one other person?

In modern English, there is no word for that. You would probably just use "we" or "the two of us".

But more than 1,000 years ago, you would have said: "wit".

This term, once also used affectionately to describe the closeness between two people, is one of many personal pronouns that have been lost or transformed amid huge social and political change over the centuries. The English language has become simplified – but at times this has left gaps, creating confusion.

"Wit" means "we two" in Old English, a Germanic language spoken in England until about the 12th Century, which evolved into the English we speak today. Now completely lost, "wit" was part of an extinct group of pronouns used for exactly two people: the dual form, which also includes "uncer" or "unker" ("our" for two people) and "git" ("you two"). That dual form vanished from the English language around the 13th Century.

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