want give a child’s wise not-understanding exchange defensiveness scor — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters a Young Poet

Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke

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Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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Related Topics: childlikeness, defensiveness, loneliness, scorn, wisdom

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