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If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place. —RAINER MARIA RILKE
Sarah B. Breathnach • Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort & Joy
Rainer Maria Rilke said this most eloquently in Letters to a Young Poet, which he wrote in 1929 to encourage a nineteen-year old writer: I would like to beg you, dear sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very fo
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Chateaubriand or a canto of Lamartine
Fernando Pessoa • The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics)
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.”
Ryan Holiday • Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
Livro do desassossego (Clássicos da literatura mundial) (Portuguese Edition)
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“You are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out its own secret.”
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a
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