Rilke

The poet Rainer Maria Rilke once told a young writer that we shouldn’t try to eliminate uncertainty, but instead learn “to love the questions themselves.”

Near the end of the film, Janet discovers a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, an excerpt from the fourth of Rilke’s mystical “Duino Elegies.”

His poetry in particular drew heavily from the European modernist tradition of Charles Baudelaire, Rainer Maria Rilke and Ezra Pound, though it remained rooted in its themes and imagery to the Piedmont South.

It was Kathy/Gidget who advised me to mail a birthday card to an ex and include Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s “no feeling is final” line in the message.

He reminds me of Rilke, who wrote to a young poet about how he needed to be patient, to learn the lessons of pain.