Why Write: Putting Pain on Paper
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.
Rainer Maria Rilke
this: to go into yourself and to examine the depths from which your life springs; at its source you will find the answer to the question—whether you must create.
Rainer Maria Rilke • Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke said this most eloquently in Letters to a Young Poet, which he wrote in 1929 to encourage a nineteen-year old writer: I would like to beg you, dear sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very fo
... See moreJanet Conner • Writing Down Your Soul: How to Activate and Listen to the Extraordinary Voice Within
In Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke writes to his protégé: “I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you b
... See moreDaniel Crosby • The Behavioral Investor
To tolerate life , as Gaitskill implores us to do, you first have to actually live in it — get up in the morning, take out the trash, eat breakfast, go to work, get on the train, try not to look too deeply into the faces of the people sitting across from you, walk home, call your parents, pay your rent — and you must do all of this amid immeasurabl... See more