Annotations Quotes

“And what matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now. Perhaps then you will gradually, without noticing it, live your way into the answer, one distant day in the future.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“To be an artist means: not to calculate and count; to grow and ripen like a tree which does not hurry the flow of its sap and stands at ease in the spring gales without fearing that no summer may follow. It will come.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“You are looking to the outside, and that above all you should not be doing now.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Then try, like the first human being, to say what you see and experience and love and lose.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then assume this fate and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking after the rewards that may come from outside.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“All I wanted to do in the end was advise you to go through your development quietly and seriously ; you cannot disrupt it more than looking outwards.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“All I wanted to do in the end was advise you to go through your development quietly and seriously; you cannot disrupt it more than looking outwards.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Trust yourself and your instincts; even if you go wrong in your judgement, the natural growth of your inner life will gradually, over time, lead you to other insights.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Allow your verdicts their own quiet untroubled development which like all progress must come from deep within and cannot be forced or accelerated.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“And what matters is to live everything. ”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet