Sunday, August 7, 2016

Thought for the Day

We need, in love, to practice only this:
letting each other go. For holding on
comes easily; we do not need to learn it.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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Quoted from Rilke's "Requiem for a Friend" in The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (Vintage, 1989), English and German Edition.

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), Poet and Novelist

1 comment:

drew said...

Yes, yes, yes. So simple, so true, so often difficult.