I wasn’t raised with the wirings and poetry of Rilke, but I am sure grateful to have been introduced to them. The following is arguably one of his best known quotes, yet I had to post it. It is just
Catch What You’ve Thrown Yourself by Rainer Maria Rilke As long as you catch what you’ve thrown yourself, it’s all just clever agility and venial gain; but when you suddenly come to catch a ball an eternal playmate has thrown
Go to the Limits of Your Longing by Rainer Maria Rilke God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out