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" Be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart,” Rilke wrote, advising a young poet, “and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms, like books written in a foreign tongue.… Live the questions for now. Perhaps then you will gradually, without noticing it, live your way into the answer.… [T]his is what you must work on however you can and not waste too much time and too much energy on clarifying your attitude to other people.”9 "

Margaret Heffernan , Uncharted: How to Map the Future


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Margaret Heffernan quote : Be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart,” Rilke wrote, advising a young poet, “and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms, like books written in a foreign tongue.… Live the questions for now. Perhaps then you will gradually, without noticing it, live your way into the answer.… [T]his is what you must work on however you can and not waste too much time and too much energy on clarifying your attitude to other people.”9