Letters to a Young Poet
Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and nothing can reach them so little as criticism. Only love can grasp them and keep hold of them and be just to them. Always trust yourself and your own feelings as opposed to any such analysis, review or introduction; if you should be wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will lead you slowly
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Richard Dehmel:
Rainer Maria Rilke • Letters to a Young Poet
"Niels Lyhne"
Rainer Maria Rilke • Letters to a Young Poet
great Danish poet, Jens Peter Jacobsen.
Rainer Maria Rilke • Letters to a Young Poet
To be an artist is this: not to count or to reckon: to ripen like a tree which does not force its sap, but in the storms of spring stands confident without being afraid that afterwards no summer may come. The summer comes all right. But it only comes to the patient, to those who are there as carefree and quiet and immense, as if eternity lay before
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