Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria RilkeSözler ve Alıntılar
Viareggio near Pisa (Italy), 23 April 1903
These things cannot be measured by time, a year has no meaning, and ten years are nothing. To be an artist means: not to calculate and count; to grow and ripen like a tree which does not hurry the flow of its sap and stands at ease in the spring gales without fearing that no summer may follow.
The Letter from the Young Worker
Nothing is as powerful as silence.
Rome, 14 May 1904
To love is also good, for love is hard. Love between one person and another: that is perhaps the hardest thing it is laid on us to do, the utmost, the ultimate trial and test, the work for which all other work is just preparation.
Viareggio near Pisa (Italy), 23 April 1903
Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing isless likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them and do them justice.
Viareggio near Pisa (Italy), 23 April 1903
With regard to any such disquisition, review or introduction, trust yourself and your instincts; even if you go wrong in your judgement, the natural growth of your inner life will gradually, over time, lead you to other insights. Allow your verdicts their own quiet untroubled development which like all progress must come from deep within and cannot be forced or accelerated. Everything must be carried to term before it is born.