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“There is no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confident in the storms of spring without the fear that after them may come no summer. It does come. But it comes only to the patient, who are there as th

Austin Kleon • Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)

Or, prends-y bien garde, la lecture d'une foule d'auteurs et d'ouvrages en tout genre ressemble fort au caprice et à l'inconstance d. Fais un choix d'écrivains pour t'y arrêter et te nourrir de leur génie si tu veux en tirer un profit durable et des souvenirs fidèles. C'est n'être nulle part que d'être partout.

Sénèque • Lettres à Lucilius (La Petite Collection) (French Edition)

Live the questions, said Rilke.

Steven Kotler • Last Tango in Cyberspace: A Novel

"Niels Lyhne"

Rainer Maria Rilke • Letters to a Young Poet

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you wi... See more

A letter from the guy asking all the questions

Letters to a Young Poet

Reginald Snell

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There was a room of carvings by Gauguin. And one said: Be mysterious. And the other one said: Be in love, you will be happy.

Andrew Sean Greer • Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Novel (The Arthur Less Books Book 1)

Marie Howe’s New and Selected Poems “The Meadow:”

… Bedeviled,

human, your plight, in waking,

is to choose from the words that even now sleep on your tongue,

and to know that tangled among them and

terribly new is the sentence that could change your life.

As Goethe’s maxim goes, “The greatest respect an author can have for his public is never to produce what is expected but what he himself considers right and useful for whatever stage of intellectual development has been reached by himself and others.”