Status Updates From Letters to a Young Poet

not even halfway through the book and already shed some tears 🥹

“You are so young, all still lies ahead of you, and I should like to ask you, as best I can, dear Sir, to be patient towards 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 foreign tongue. Do not strive to uncover answers: they cannot be given you because you have not been able to live them.“

I have already decided I am making this required reading for my future children.

I don't think i've ever felt more seen in my entire life