無盡的問題用詩來回答

1.
I must love the questions
themselves
as Rilke said
like locked rooms
full of treasures
to which my blind
and groping key
does not yet fit
and await the answers
as unsealed
letters
mailed with dubious intent
and written in a very foreign
tongue
and in the hourly making
of myself
no thought of time
to force, to squeeze
the space I grow into.

(Reassurance, Alice Walker, 1973)


2.
"...be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves,like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."

(Letters to a young poet, Rainer M. Rilke, 1903)



3.
"...I am often asked what keeps me going after all these years. I think it is the realization that there is no final struggle. Whether you win or lose, each struggle forth new contradictions, new and more challenging questions. As Alice Walker put it in one of my favorite poems:

I must love the questions
themselves
as Rilke said
like locked rooms
full of treasures
to which my blind
and groping key
does not yet fit.  "

(Living for Change, Grace L. Boggs, 1991)


4.


(Pulse Room, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, 2006)


5.
像是在閉鎖的大房間裡，無盡的寶藏、陌生語言寫的歷史
閃爍的心跳聲
眼瞎如我們
能不能活在
無盡的問題中，掙扎著向前推進？