Tuesday, April 6, 2010

This quote always feels nostalgic to me, though I'm not totally sure why since I've never spent a chunk of time by the sea. Sounds divine to me, nonetheless...

'Personally, I want the sea always...and with it sunshine, and wine, and a little music.'
- Max Beerbohm

( I promise to get back to regular posting with my own words soon.  But right now, I have to write papers for school, and they are stealing most of my words, every drop of creativity, and all of my energy.)

Monday, April 5, 2010

And the point is, to live everything.

You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to 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. 

Rainer Maria Rilke, "Letters to a Young Poet," 1903.