now the stag
"Now the stag becomes part of the earth.
lifts and holds the tree of winter,
its pure unfoliated branched-out play.
the peacefullness of its head
stops just short of breaking into leaves."
~Rilke
Posted by jeff pitcher at November 15, 2003 10:09 AM
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Today, I am holding these words close to me:
"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 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 find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer."
Thank you for your wonderful site. xo.
Posted by: christine at November 18, 2003 04:04 PM
