Letters to a Young Poet
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chronicpaint"How shall we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples,
the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses;
perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once, beautiful and brave.
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
So you must not be frightened, if a sadness rises up before you larger than you have ever seen;
if a restiveness, like light and cloud-shadows, passes over your hands and over all you do.
You must think that something is happening with you,that life has not forgotten you,
that it holds you in its hands,it will not let you fall..."
--Ranier Maria Rilke
the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses;
perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once, beautiful and brave.
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
So you must not be frightened, if a sadness rises up before you larger than you have ever seen;
if a restiveness, like light and cloud-shadows, passes over your hands and over all you do.
You must think that something is happening with you,that life has not forgotten you,
that it holds you in its hands,it will not let you fall..."
--Ranier Maria Rilke