The Quest
How should we be able
to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the
myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all
the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once
beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything
terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
So you must not be
frightened, if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever
seen; if a restivenss, like light and cloud-shadows, passes over your hands and
over all you do. You must think that
something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds
you in its hand; it will not let you fall....
Ranier Maria Rilke
Letters To A Young
Poet
