Letter to a young poet

“Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart.  Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and 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.”

Rainier Maria Rilke