Find Those Words

Life Preservers - Vol. 00.68

Find Those Words

“Cease to be difficult,”
cease to grow.

If any person,
his life but “trouble and sadness,”
I say to you this:

Simple, and quiet words
sometimes give you pleasure,
and comfort.

Find those words.

Source Material: Rilke, Rainer Maria. “Letters To A Young Poet.” Translated by Stephen Mitchell, The Modern Library, 1984, pp. 97 - 2020