Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. - Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters to a Young Poet Quotes)

Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.[Vielleicht ist alles Schreckliche im tiefsten Grunde das Hilflose, das von uns Hilfe will.]

Source:Letter Eight (August 12, 1904)
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