For it is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Fear of the Inexplicable in Letters to a Young Poet (1929)
Poets, for me, can be the most honest and poignant observers of the human condition. In Fear of the Inexplicable, Rainer Maria Rilke asks us to be brave in the face of uncertainty and perhaps we can find the beauty in a world seemingly dominated by the inelegant or the grotesque.