One of my favorite writers is Rilke and I’ve been re-reading his “Letters to a Young Poet” and thought I would share a bit of each letter with you here for inspiration.
If you’ve not ever read the book, you should!
Letter 1 “…ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write?”
Letter 2 “Irony: Don’t let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.”
Letter 3 “I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!”
Letter 4 “…try to love the questions themselves… books written in a very foreign language.”
Letter 5 “…there is much beauty here, because everywhere there is much beauty.”
Letter 6 “…there is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear…”
Letter 7 “…that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.”
Letter 8 “…ask yourself whether these large sadnesses haven’t rather gone right through you…”
Letter 9 “…that you may find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith…”
Letter 10 “Art too is just a way of living…”
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