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I have often thought about you and imagined how quiet you must be in your solitary fort up among the empty mountains over which those great south winds rush, as if they wanted to devour them in mighty chunks.

The silence must be immense

To be able to receive such sounds and movements () joined by noise of the sea, present in the distance ()

Pre-historic harmony ()

Let this marvellous solitude work on you ()

A solitude which will never be deleted from your life.

In all that lies before you to experience and do,

It will continue as an anonymous influence ()

Perhaps like the way the blood of our ancestors moves unceasingly within us and mingles with our own

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)

Paris, on the second day of Christmas, 1908

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I think of you often ()

Whether my letters can really be a help, well, I have my doubts.

Do not say: Yes, they are. Just let them sink in and without any particular sense of gratitude, and let’s wait and see what will come of it. ()

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)

Furuborg, Jonsered, Sweden, 4. November, 1904

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So,

Dear Mr. Kappus (the young poet, p01)

You shouldn’t be dismayed if a sadness rises up in front of you, greater than any you have seen before; or if a disquiet plays over your hands () like light and cloud-shadow. ()

Think that something is happening with you,

That life has not forgotten you,

That it holds you in its hand;

It will not let you fall.

Why should you want to exclude from your life all unsettling () when you don’t know what work it is these states are performing within you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question where it all comes from and where it is leading? You well know you are in a

Period of transition ()

If there is something ailing in the way you go about things, then remember that sickness is the means by whih an organism rids itself of something foreign to it. All one has to do is help it to be ill, to have its whole illness and let it break out, for that is how it mends itself. ()

There is so much () going on ()

You must be patient as an invalid and

Trusting as a convalescent,

For you are perhaps both.

And more than that:

You are also the doctor ()

But with all illnesses there are many days when the doctor can do nothing but wait,

Inasfar as you are your own doctor

This above all is

What you

Must

Do

Now.

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)

Borgeby, gard, Fladie, Sweden, 12. August, 1904

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The fear of the inexplicable

Has not just rendered the individual existence poorer;

Relations between people, too, have been

Restricted,

As it were lifted out of the

River-bed of of endless possibilities

And placed on a deserted bank where nothing happens. ()

It is not lethargy alone which cause human relationships to repeat themselves in the same old () monotony ()

It is the shying away from any kind of

New,

Unforeseeable

Experience,

Which we think we may not be equal to.

But only someone who is ready for anything nd rules nothing out, not even the most enigmatic things, will experience the relationship with another as a living thing and will him (her, p01) self llve his (her, p01) own existence to the full. ()

Imagining an individual’s existence as a larger or smaller room

Reveals to us that most people are only acquainted with one corner of their particular room,

A place by the window,

A little area

To pace

Up

And

Down.

That way they have a certain security.

And yet the perilous uncertainty that drives the prisoners in Poe’s tales out the outlines of their () dungeons ()

But we are not prisoners.

There are no traps or snares set up around us, and there is nothing that should frighten or torment us.

We are placed into life ()

We have no reason to be distrustful of our world, for it is not against us.

If it holds terrors, they are our terrors,

If it has abysses, these abysses belong to us ()

How can we forget those ancient myths found at the beginnings of all peoples?

The myths about the dragons who at the last moment turn princesses?

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses, only waiting for the day when they will see us handsome (beautiful, p01) and brave?

Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help.

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)

Borgeby, gard, Fladie, Sweden, 12. August, 1904

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We

Have already had to adjust our theories of planetary motion,

And so, too, we shall gradually learn to recognize

That what we call fate originates in ourselves, in humankind, and does not work on us from the outside. ()

Many people () in panic () swore to never have found anything of the sort in themselves before. ()

Someone transported from his room, () without warning and interval, onto the top of a high mountain would feel () virtually destroyed by an unparalleled sense of insecurity, by an exposure to something nameless. He would think he was falling or believe himself to be hurtling out into space or shattered into a thousand pieces ()

For one who becomes solitary, many such changes suddenly take place at once and, as with the man on the mountaintop, unusual imaginings and curious sensations occur which seem to be take on dimensions greater than can be tolerated.

But it is necessary for us to experience this too.

We must accept our existence in as wide a sense as can be; everything, even the unheard of, must be possible within it.

That,

When you come down to it,

Is the only kind of courage that is demanded of us:

The courage of the oddest,

The most unexpected,

The most inexplicable

Things that we may encounter. ()

Human beings have been cowardly in this regard ()

The experiences we describe as ‘apparitions’, the entire so-called ‘spirit world’, death

All those things so closely akin to us

Have by our daily rejection of them been

Forced so far from our lives that

The senses with which we might apprehend them

Have atrophied. ()

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)

Borgeby, gard, Fladie, Sweden, 12. August, 1904

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I believe

That

Almost all our sadnesses are

Periods of tautening

That we experience as numbness

Because we can no longer hear stirring of our feelings, which have become foreign to us;

Because we are alone

With the strange feeling that has entered into us;

Because everything () is taken away from us for a moment;

Because we are in the middle of a transition ()

And that is why sadness passes:

What is new in us, the thing that has supervened,

Has entered into our heart,

Penetrated to its innermost chamber

And lingered not even there -

It is already in our blood. ()

We never quite know what it was. One might easily suppose nothing had happened, but we have altered the way a house alters when a guest enters it.

We cannot say who has come, perhaps we shall never know, but there are many indications that it is the future that enters into us like this,

In order to be transformed within us,

Long before it actually occurs ()

That is why it is so important to be () attentive when one is sad: Because the apparently uneventful and static moment when our future comes upon us is so much closer to life than the other () point when it happens () outside.

The quieter,

The more patient and open

We are in our sadness,

The deeper and more unerringly the new will penetrate into us,

The better we shall acquire it,

The more it will be our fate,

And when one day in the future it ‘takes place’ ()

We shall feel related and close to it in our innermost hearts. ()

And that is necessary ()

Little by little our development will tend in this direction ()

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)

Borgeby, gard, Fladie, Sweden, 12. August, 1904

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You

Have had many great sadnesses

Which have now passed by ()

But I ask you to consider whether these great unhappinesses did not rather passes

Through

You?

Whether much within You has not changed,

Whether somewhere, in some part of your being, you were not

Transformed ()?

If it were possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and a little beyond the outworks of our intuitions, perhaps we then should then bear our sadnesses with greater assurance ()

For they are moments when something new enters into us,

Something unknown (),

Our feelings,

Shy and inhibited,

Fall silent,

Everything within us withdraws

A stillness settles on us,

And at the centre of it is the

New presence

That nobody knows,

Making no sound

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)

Borgeby, gard, Fladie, Sweden, 12. August, 1904

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