Between the Pages of Letters to A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke X
"Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more…
"Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more…
And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something…
It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living. Because…
The previous commentary in this series on Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, attempted a translation of a perspective which agrees with what Rilke puts as “it is…
Most people have (with the help of conventions) turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that…