From Letters to a Young Poet

I want to beg of you much as I can to be patient

toward all that's unsolved in your heart, and learn to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, or like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.

Do not seek the answers, which cannot be given you, because you would not be able to live them, and the point is to live everything.

Live the question now, perhaps you will then, gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

by Rainer Maria Rilke