WHS: #RainerMariaRilke from Letters to a Young Poet: A work of art is good only if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it. So, dear Sir, I cant give you any advice but this: to go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows; at its source you will find the answer to the question of whether you MUST create. Accept that answer, just as it is given to you, without trying to interpret it. Perhaps you will discover that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself, and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside. For the creator must be a world for himself. And must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted. *image, Portrait of Rilke. Artist Unknown.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 17:22:41 +0000
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