Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Bohemian-Austrian poet who wrote the Duino Elegies and Letters to a Young Poet. Worked briefly as Rodin's secretary; lived 1875–1926.
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Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write; find out whether it is spreading out its roots in the deepest places of your heart.
A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity.
Works of art are of an infinite loneliness.
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.
The only journey is the one within.
Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
Nobody can counsel and help you, nobody. There is only one single way. Go into yourself.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.