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Rainer Maria Rilke was a renowned Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, born on December 4, 1875, in Prague, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic). His most famous work, "Letters to a Young Poet," published in 1929, consists of a series of ten letters written by Rilke to a young aspiring poet named Franz Xaver Kappus. These letters offer profound insights into the nature of art, creativity, and the human experience. Rilke's lyrical and introspective style, combined with his philosophical musings, has made him one of the most influential poets of the 20th century. He passed away on December 29, 1926, in Val-Mont, Switzerland.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now 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 questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer.

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