Marike

“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. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are simply there in their vast, quiet tranquility, as if eternity lay before them. It is a lesson I learn every day amid hardships I am thankful for: patience is all!”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank

“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag