On Living One’s Art (from the Third Letter, 26)Īll things consist of carrying to term and then giving birth. At its source you will find the answer to the question….Ģ.
Therefore, my dear friend, I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth. You’re looking outward and, above all else, that you must not do now. Well now, since you have given me permission to advise you, I suggest that you give all that up. You send them to publishers you compare them with other poems you are disturbed when certain publishers reject your attempts. On Looking Inward (from The First Letter, 10, 12) (The subtitles are my own and the numbers refer to the pages in the hyperlinked book.)ġ. Rilke’s words touch the human soul and invite change. Despite the title, Rilke’s words are not limited to the young or would-be poets. Rilke’s letters were published posthumously as Letters to a Young Poet. Rilke offered wisdom rather than answers, a way rather than a destination. Kappus began the correspondence seeking Rilke’s judgment and critique of his poetry. Over a period of about six years Kappus and Rilke exchanged letters. “When a truly great and unique spirit speaks, the lesser ones must be silent,” Franz Xaver Kappus wrote about Rainer Marie Rilke.
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