Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? “I wanted a perfect ending. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.”, “In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.”, “When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.”, “I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. But once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.”, “I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”, “To love is good, too: love being difficult. For, if I did, I was wrong. Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change. Life. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet. We'd get rained on together. “It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.”, “Life isn’t meant to be lived perfectly…but merely to be LIVED. “I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. (in Letters to a Young Poet, 1929 ) In 1901 Rilke married the young sculptress, Klara Westhoff, one of Auguste Rodin's pupils. “Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. Welcome back. I left all the answers blank and got 100.”, “We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”, “I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. New members announced Friday also include poet Kevin Young, director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture; former U.S. poet … ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”, “Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Be the first to learn about new releases! “Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you. Live the questions now. English Romantic poet John Keats was born on October 31, 1795, in London. Photos by Steve Moakley with The Multicultural Refugee Coalition . Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”, “I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”, “It is spring again. The Father Christmas Letters, 1976 Bilbo's Last Song, 1977 Silmarillion, 1977 Pictures by J.R.R. Just last month, a slim volume of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet made me sing songs of delight and now I deem it as my guide, being an aspiring poet. VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Tokien: A Selection, 1981 The Old English Exodus, 1981 (translator) Mr Bliss, 1982 Finn and Hengest, 1983 It happened. 6. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”, “Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. And the point is, to live everything. Nothing is: at least nothing that is worthwhile. You only have to know the history of your own life.”, Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a leader of the British Romantic movement, was born on October 21, 1772, in Devonshire, England. It was life. Did I? To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. by Abe Louise Young and Alan Shefsky . If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.”, “Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.”, “Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. His father, a vicar of a parish and master of a grammar school, married twice and had fourteen children. James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida. “Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. You don't need to read history books to know that. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”, “We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. I don't have to know an answer. He is also a 2013 Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Boldly, wildly, beautifully, uncertainly, imperfectly, magically LIVED.”, “Sometimes the clouds weren't weightless. “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. Bahrain and Palestine paid tribute to Bahrain’s iconic figure in poetry and sports, the late Shaikh Isa bin Rashid Al Khalifa, who passed away last year on World Poetry Day. English poet Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf: …I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. Ovid, Roman poet noted especially for his Ars amatoria and Metamorphoses. It is a question of experiencing everything. “The work of the eyes is done. That there was an uncertain future I could handle.”, “If I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. tags: inner-peace, introspection, uncertainty. “Go into yourself. He distinguished himself equally as a man of letters and as a civil rights leader in the early decades of the 20th century. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.”, “I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. 873 likes. I didn't bring you up only to move across sure ground. Gary Soto. They had a daughter, Ruth, but marriage lasted only one year. Like “We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty… On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.... and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”, “The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. His verse had immense influence both by its imaginative interpretations of Classical myth and as an example of supreme technical accomplishment. I left all the answers blank and got 100.” ― Woody Allen tags: existentialism, humor, uncertainty. US poet laureate Joy Harjo is one of the members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Nobody can get to that last thing. “I took a test in Existentialism. Welcome back. Sometimes their bellies got dark and full. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. Kathie Sever: Ft Lonesome . 11186 likes. tags: love. The work expressed his spiritual yearning. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.”. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.”, Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. His father, a livery-stable keeper, died when Keats was eight; his mother died of tuberculosis six years later. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.”, “And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been”, “only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.”, “For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, “Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.”, “For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.”, “If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.”, “Make your ego porous. Goodreads helps you follow your favorite authors. ”. Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. Our Piece of Earth. Noelle King . During this period Rilke composed in rhymed, metered verse, the second part of The Book of Hours . That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.”, “And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. I fyou won't take a chance, then the powers you refuse because you cannot explain them, will, as they say, make a monkey out of you.”, “Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is not important-but the unity of the world, the coherence of all events, the embracing of the big and the small from the same stream, from the same law of cause, of becoming and dying.”, “Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.”, “But nothing is solid and permanent. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”, “Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”, “I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”, “Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know what work these conditions are doing inside you? B. Leishman How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?”. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Knowing Braden he'd have a big ass umbrela to shelter us from the worst of it. 1210 likes. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Born and raised in Fresno, California, is the author of thirteen poetry collections for adults, most notably NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, a 1995 finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Award and the National Book Award. Like “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 now written in a very foreign tongue. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. “Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. The opposite isn't uncertainty. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.”, “Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.”, “The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.”, “Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.”, “Let go of certainty. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Quandam Forest, Quandam Sea. Collage & paintings by Andy St. Martin . His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Learn more about Ovid’s life and work. by Christopher Tolkien) Poems and Stories, 1980 The Letters of J.R.R. At present you need to live the question. Do not now look for the answers. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”, “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”, “Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Letters to a Young Poet Sonnets to Orpheus Wartime Letters of Rainer Maria Ril\e Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilf^e The Lay of //.. Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilfye The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Stories of God Translated by Stephen Spender and J. Poet-to-Poet: A Friendship in Letters. I didn't teach you to think that everything must be within our control or understanding. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”, “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 now written in a very foreign tongue. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.”, “In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past.”, “But I have my life, I’m living it. The poems classified by groups: odes, sonnets, epistles, others poems, short poems, and separately placed his long poems: Endymion, Hyperion, Lamia.Totally you can find 148 poems of John Keats at the website keats-poems.com. Tolkien, 1979 Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth, 1980 (ed. read poems by this poet read poems by samuel taylor coleridge. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Poet Amanda Gorman Will Speak At Biden's Inauguration : Biden Transition Updates At 22 years old, the Los Angeles native will become the youngest poet in … Ground Songs. The oldest of four children, he lost both his parents at a young age. Francis Brett Young was born in Halesowen, Worcestershire.He received his early education at Iona, a private school in Sutton Coldfield.His father, Thomas Brett Young, was a doctor and his mother also came from a medical family, so it was natural that he go to the school for the sons of doctors, Epsom College.He was there when, at fourteen, he suffered the death of his beloved mother. Amanda Gorman, 22, became the youngest poet to read a poem at a presidential inauguration when she recited a piece she wrote after the Capitol riots, … “The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”, “Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Like “I took a test in Existentialism. He is an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, a recipient of The National Humanities Medal, and the Jefferson Lecturer for 2012. 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