Status Updates From Letters to a Young Poet

“ And so it is with flowers, with animals, with the simplest laws, that function here and there and go through the world and a few strides from beginning to end.” just how life occurs, how it offers in ordinary animals, and, how life blossoms, how it bears: all that I long to learn.”

“ ask it, whenever everyone wants to spouse something for you, why something is ugly, demands from it, test it, and we will find a perplexed and embarrassed, perhaps, or perhaps rebellious.”

“If a sadness rises up before you larger than any oh 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, but it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall.”

“‎Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. So you mustn’t be frightened, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety... moves over your hands and over everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall.”

Oof this language is tough to follow.