To love

Is also good ()

Love between one person and another: that is perhaps the hardest thing that is laid upon us do, the utmost, the ultimate trial and test, the work for which all other work is just preparation. ()

Beginners in everything, do not yet (consciously, p01) know how to love ()

An apprenticeship () is always a long, secluded period, and love too is for a great time and far into life: heightened and deepened loneliness for the one one in love.

Love at first has nothing to do with unfolding, abandon and uniting with another person (for what be the sense in a union of what is unrefined and unfinished, still second order);

For the individual it is a grand opportunity to mature, to become something in him (her, p01) self, to become a world in him (her, p01) self for another's sake ()

The unfolding, the abandon and any kind of togetherness () are the culmination.

But () people () fling themselves at another, when love comes over them ()

In all their () confusion..

But what can come of that? ()

Each person loses him (her, p01) self () for the other’s sake and loses the other ()

Loses the expanses and possibilities,

Exchanges the nearing and fleeing of delicate, mysterious things for ()

The escape into one of the many conventions which like public shelters are set up in great numbers along this most dangerous of paths.

No area of human experience is so well furnished with conventions as this ()

Society in its wisdom has found ways of constructing refuges of all kinds,

For since it has been disposed to make the love-life a pastime, it also felt obliged to trivialize it,

To make it cheap, risk-free and secure, as public pleasure usually are.

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke

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Solitude

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Vast ()

Not easy to bear ()

Almost everyone has moments when they would happily exchange it for some form of company ()

Perhaps that are precisely the hours when solitude grows ()

For growth is () painful like the beginning of spring. ()

Going into oneself and not meeting anyone for hours ()

Loneliness of the kind one knew as a child, when the grown-ups went back and forth bound-up on things, which seemed grave and weighty because they looked so busy, and because one had no idea what they were up to. ()

Think () of the world that you carry within you. ()

Whether it is memory of your own childhood or longing for your own future -

Just be attentive to what rises up inside you and

Place it above everything that you notice around you.

What goes on in your innermost being is worth all your love

This is what you must work on however you can ()

If there is communal feeling between you and other people, try to be near to things ()

The nights are still ()

The winds that go through the trees

And over the many lands ()

Full of happenings in which you can take part ()

Children are still as you were

When you were a child,

Just as sad and happy,

And whenever you think of your childhood you live among them again ()

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() Rome (if one is not yet acquainted with it) seems oppressively sad when one first arrives: the lifeless and drear museum atmosphere it breathes, the abundance of fragments of the past (on which a tiny presence nourishes itself). ()

Vestiges of another age ()

Not your own and () not meant to be. ()

All these objects which generation after generation have continued to admire () they () have no heart and no value;

But there is great deal of beauty here, because there is beauty everywhere.

Infinitely lively waters go over the old aqueducts into the city and on the many squares dance over bowls of white stone and fill () basins and murmur all day

And raise their murmur into the night ()

Vast and starry and

Soft with winds.

And there are gardens ()

Built to resemble cascades of flowing water -

Giving birth to step after () step () wave after wave ()

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Your letter of 29 August reached me in Florence, and only now - two months on - do I give you news of it.

Forgive me this delay, but I prefer not to write letters when I’m traveling because letter-writing requires of me more than just the basic wherewithal:

Some quiet and time of my own and a moment when I feel relatively at home.

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() 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 ()

For the people you are close to, you tell me, are far away, and that shows that you are beginning to create a wider space around you. And what is close is far, then the space around you is wide indeed ()

() be kind-hearted towards those you leave behind, and be () gentle with them and do not plague them with your doubts or frighten them with () confidence or () joyfulness ()

Look for some kind of () being together which does not necessarily have to alter however much you may change;

Love them in a form of life different from yours and show understanding for the () ones who fear precisely () in which you trust.

Avoid providing material for () drama, which () spans between (); it saps () strength and consumes () love which works and warms even when it does not comprehend.

Ask no advice () and reckon with no understanding; but

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 () 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.

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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.

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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 ().

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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. ()

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 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 ()

Patience is all.

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke

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