The Sadness Monster

From "

Letters To A Young Poet

", Rilke on sadness: "...only because so many people did not absorb their fates while they were inhabited by them, and did not make them a part of themselves, only because of this did they fail to recognise what emerged from them. It was so foreign to them that in their confused panic they assumed it must have entered into them, for they swore never to have found anything of the sort in themselves before.... We have no reason to be mistrustful of our world, for it is not against us. If it holds terrors they are

our

terrors, if it has its abysses these abysses belong to us, if there are dangers then we must try to love them"