Mahika’s Reviews > Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salomé: The Correspondence > Status Update

Lou (1921): ...the core compulsions of the creative artist clearly reappear in the schizophrenic--that in both of them, active and passive, seeing and shaping are incomprehensibly the same, creation is as little to be halted or held in abeyance as in revelation itself: for both still proceed as one, undivided, behind all that which, in the name of rationality, separates subject and reality into two different things.

Lou, 1903: “You already have it inside you, that one real thing, planted there like a hidden seed and this not yet present to you. You possess it now in this sense: you have become like a little plot of earth into which all that falls—and be it even things mangled and broken, things thrown away in disgust—must enter an alchemy and become food to nourish the buried seed…It all turns to loam, becomes you.”