Rainier Maria Rilke

Rainier Maria Rilke (1875-1926) born in Prague and widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets, Rainer Maria Rilke was unique in his efforts to expand the realm of poetry through new uses of syntax and imagery. Having left military school, he instead went into a preparatory school and by the time he attended Charles University in Prague in 1895, he knew that he would pursue a literary career.

...I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

— Rainier Maria Rilke