You are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out its own secrets.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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"Didn’t you wake up feeling that you had no future? Didn’t you walk around drained of all meaning, without the right to even the slightest danger? Didn’t you have to promise, a hundred times, not to die?"
Selected Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke
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— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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...your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.
Letters to a Young Poet | Rainer Maria Rilke
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The fact that Harry is reading Rainer Maria Rilke and casually quoting him like that 🤯
So, I went in search of the quote having no knowledge of Rilke at all, but I found so much more, and it’s so interesting.
These are quotes taken from an article called The Difficult Art of Giving Space in Love: Rilke on Freedom, Togetherness, and the Secret to a Good Marriage, where the author takes a Rilke anthology and breaks down the thoughts. It’s really interesting, because it’s so centered on caring for a long term relationship and ensuring it’s longevity and happiness and it just… makes you think about what Harry is reading and why.
My conclusion: Maybe “Do you protect each other’s solitude?” is a phrase Harry learned from therapy, or maybe he reads Rilke just for the betterment of his person.
But it’s such interesting phrasing that it’s by no means spontaneous, and that has me wondering why he’s working on things particularly related to ensuring a long term relationship (in Rilke’s words: a marriage) flourishes in its solitude, individuality and distance.
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it is spring again / 5.2023
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Keep going. No feeling is final.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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