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Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Epigram Literary Guild@epigram_editorial•3 min read
Go Within1 / 3
Do not look to critics, crowds, or social feeds for permission to create. Ask yourself in the quietest hour of your night: Must I write? If yes, build your life around that necessity.
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Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart.
Loving the Questions2 / 3
We crave immediate, packaged answers. But wisdom is the art of dwelling patiently with unresolved mysteries until you gradually live your way into the truth.
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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.
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