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“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Aug 4, 2014 · “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” – Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
- “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. 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.
- “Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final” ― Rainer Maria Rilke.
- “We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke.
Jan 25, 2022 · Rainer Maria Rilke. In his Letters to a Young Poet, the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke transforms our traditional idea that dragons are dreadful creatures that need to be eliminated. In almost every mythology, the dragon is the symbol of fear and tyranny.
Jan 18, 2014 · Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. Rainer-Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, 1929.
On Strength and Adversity. “I would like to find this strength to base my life entirely on this truth, on this infinite and simplicity and joy that is sometimes given to me.”. -Selected Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke. “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, beautiful and brave.
Apr 8, 2015 · “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are really princesses, waitiing for us to be handsome and brave; and all the terrifying things are really helpless things, waiting for us to help them.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
