I’m on NPR’s The Morning Edition today for World Poetry Day! I spoke to them about these wonderful words by Rainer Maria Rilke from his book Letters to a Young Poet:

“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. 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.”

Well, they didn’t use that part, but I’ll leave it here for your enjoyment. In the Introduction to The Wonder Paradox I wrote about how this Rilke quote changed my life. Enjoy!