Real Love

“I have never understood how a genuine, elementary, thoroughly true love can remain unrequited since such love is nothing but the urgent and blessed appeal for another person to be beautiful, abundant, great, intense, unforgettable: nothing but the surging commitment for him to amount to something. And tell me, who would be in a position to refuse this appeal when it is directed at him, when it elects him from among millions where he might have lived obscured by his fate or unattainable in the midst of fame….”

– Rilke, in a September 24, 1908 letter to Sidonie Nadherny von Borutin

~ by John 24x7 on July 27, 2008.