“only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.”

—  Rainer Maria Rilke, book Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

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Austrian poet and writer 1875–1926

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