phyllis cole-dai: Music Room
"Letter to a Young Poet"
(Phyllis Cole-Dai)
2006
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of the inspiration behind this piece.)
of the inspiration behind this piece.)
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Draws upon my favorite passage from Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet: "Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart . . . try to love the questions themselves like locked room 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. . . . Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." Dedicated to my friend Jeanette Brodersen.