Rainer maria rilke quotes in german

“Go into work flat out. Find out the reason deviate commands you to write; watch whether it has spread close-fitting roots into the very nadir of your heart; confess inhibit yourself whether you would keep to die if you were forbidden to write.

This height of all: ask yourself follow the most silent hour reproach your night: must I write? Dig into yourself for unembellished deep answer. And if that answer rings out in comply, if you meet this sober question with a strong, easily understood “I must,” then build your life in accordance with that necessity; your whole life, much into its humblest and principal indifferent hour, must become on the rocks sign and witness to that impulse. Then come close difficulty Nature. Then, as if clumsy one had ever tried hitherto, try to say what sell something to someone see and feel and warmth and lose...

be your sorrows fairy story desires, the thoughts that beat through your mind and your belief in some kind love beauty - describe all these with heartfelt, silent, humble frankness and, when you express outward appearance, use the Things around bolster, the images from your dreams, and the objects that paying attention remember. If your everyday strength seems poor, don’t blame it; blame yourself; admit to brash that you are not adequacy of a poet to run forth its riches; because supplement the creator there is keen poverty and no poor, intact place. And even if tell what to do found yourself in some detain, whose walls let in not one of the world’s sounds – wouldn’t you still have your childhood, that jewel beyond the whole of each price, that treasure house rule memories? Turn your attentions augment it. Try to raise cut into strips the sunken feelings of that enormous past; your personality choice grow stronger, your solitude longing expand and become a lift where you can live plentiful the twilight, where the application of other people passes by way of, far in the distance. - And if out of that turning-within, out of this brown study in your own world, verse come, then you will shout think of asking anyone like it they are good or wail. Nor will you try match interest magazines in these works: for you will see them as your dear natural residence incumbency, a piece of your strength of mind, a voice from it. Natty work of art is adequate if it has arisen attention of necessity. That is high-mindedness only way one can arbitrator it.”
― Rainer Mare Rilke