Rilke's "Ten Letters to a Young Poet" classic quotation and beautiful sentence excerpt
May you yourself have enough patience to bear it, and have enough simplicity of heart to believe. Please believe that life is reasonable no matter what.
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
A common mistake made by young people is to abandon their lives arbitrarily, or even fall into a state of suffocation, upside down, and chaos. During this period, everyone lost themselves for others, and at the same time lost others, and lost many others who were still coming, and lost many breadth and possibilities.
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
If you feel that your daily life is poor, you don't complain about it; Blame yourself, blame yourself for not being a poet enough to call for the treasures of life; For for the Creator there is no poverty, and there is no barrenness, no place of pain.
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
True fate makes people suffer more than these temporary melancholys, but it also gives people more opportunities to greatness, more courage to move towards eternity.
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
With deep humility and patience to look forward to a new moment of enlightenment, this is the life of art, whether it is a book, an understanding or a creation.
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
In case you are wrong, the natural growth of your inner life will slowly and at any time make you realize your mistake and lead you to another path. Let your judgment develop quietly, and development, like every progress, comes from the heart deeply, neither forced nor urged. Everything happens in time. Let the germ of every impression and an emotion be in oneself, in the dark, in the unspeakable, unconsciously, and beyond the comprehension of the individual.
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
You are so young, and all things are beginning, dear sir, and I ask you to be patient with all the doubts in your heart, and to love these "problems as they are," like a locked house, or a book written in another language. Now don't go after the answers that you can't get yet, because you can't experience them in life yet.
Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
Be brave enough to face the strangest, most surprising, and most incomprehensible things we can encounter.
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
It is with deep humility and patience to look forward to a moment of sudden enlightenment, which is the life of art, whether it is understanding or creating.
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
You have to rejoice in your growth, but you can't bring in a single person there, but be kind to those who are left behind, be steady in front of them, don't trouble them with your doubts, don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they can't understand.
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
When people come into the world, they are difficult and lonely. When people encounter difficulties, terrors, and serious things that they cannot cope with, they will hide under the custom and seek its refuge. It has become a refuge for people, but it is not a place to live. If anyone wants to live truly, he must break away from the established customs, become a living person on his own, and take on all the problems of life, just as our ancestors did, and there can be no substitute for some.
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
True fate makes people suffer more than these temporary melancholys, but it also gives people more opportunities to greatness, more courage to move towards eternity. Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
All my wishes are with you, and I trust you. Yours: Lene Maria Rilke.
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
All the emotions that focus you are pure, but the emotions that capture one aspect of your nature, that hurt you, are not pure, everything that can be thought of in your childhood is good, everything that can make you richer than you were in the best moments of your past is right.
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
Summer will come eventually, but it will only come to those who are patient; Here they are, as if eternity were always before them, carefree and silent and vast. I study every day, in the pain for which I am grateful: "patience" is everything!
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
Time cannot be calculated, years and months are invalid, even ten years are sometimes equal to nothingness. The artists are: don't count, don't count; It matures like a tree, does not squeeze its sap, and stands confidently in the storm of spring, and does not worry that summer will not come later. Summer will come eventually.
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
Let the germ of each impression and an emotion be completed in oneself, in the dark, in a place that cannot be spoken, unconsciously, and by personal understanding. With deep humility and patience to look forward to a new moment of enlightenment: this is what it is to live artistically, whether it is to understand or to create.
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
Can this fragmented aggregation (which they call union, or happiness) make life anything fulfilling? What about their future? Everyone loses themselves for others, and at the same time loses others, loses many others who are still to come, and loses many far-reaching and possibilities. Replacing the slight proximity and alienation of objects full of premonitions with a situation of twilight despair produces nothing but disgust, disappointment, and poverty.
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
As for the devotion and devotion and the union of all, it is not yet their business (they have to save and gather for a long time), that is the final end, perhaps the state of life that human life can hardly reach at present. But young people are often so wrong in this regard (because there is no patience in their nature) that, if love is given to them, they throw their lives at will, even to the point of suffocation, upside down, and disorder.
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
The essence of love is not to dedicate oneself to one's own devotion, to union with a second person (what kind of union should it be, if it is an unclear, unaccomplished, unimportant union?). It is a noble motivation for the individual to mature, to accomplish something within oneself, to complete a world, to complete a world of one's own for the sake of another person.
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
Don't be confused in loneliness, because you have some desire within yourself to get out of it. It is this desire, if you use it calmly, remarkably, like a tool, that will help you to extend your loneliness to far and wide.
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
Dear Mr. Kabbus, Endure and do not be discouraged, and you think, if spring is coming, the earth will make it done little by little, and the least work we can do will not make the creation of God more difficult than the earth is to spring. Happy and brave to you!
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
I am glad, to put it simply, because you have endured the dangers that are easy to fall into, lonely and courageously living in any unforgiving reality. The coming year will make you more determined in this life.
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
All I can say about your tendency to doubt, about the impossibility of harmony between your inner and outer life, about all that afflicts you in other things, is still what I have already said: may you yourself have sufficient patience to bear it, and to have a sufficiently simple heart to believe; You will become more and more trusting of the hard things and the loneliness you feel in the midst of the crowd. The other thing is to let life go naturally. Please believe that life is reasonable no matter what.
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
Don't be too observant of yourself. Don't jump to conclusions about what happens to you, just let them fend for themselves. Otherwise, it's easy to look back at your past with all sorts of (so-called moral) condemnations, which naturally have a lot to do with everything you are experiencing now. Whatever continues to affect you from your childhood mistakes, desires, and longings, they do not allow you to recall, for you to judge.
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
People have changed so many definitions of operation, and in the future, they will gradually realize that our so-called destiny comes out of our "people", not from the outside to our "people". It's just that there are many people who, when fate is alive in them, do not absorb it and make it their own, so they do not recognize what has come out of them.
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
Now don't go after the answers that you can't get yet, because you can't experience them in life yet. Everything has to be lived in person. Now you live with these problems. Or, not paying much attention, there will come a distant day when you will live to the point where you can answer these questions.
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
If there is a sorrow before you, it is so vast as it has never been seen before, if there is an uneasiness that sweeps over your actions and all your work like light and clouds, you must not be afraid, you must imagine that something is happening around you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hands, that it will never let you down.
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
People like to compare youth to spring, and this metaphor is correct. However, the similarity between them is not so much that the sunshine of young people is as bright as the spring sun, but from another perspective, the sorrow of young people and the growth of young people are more like the spring that evolves in the cloudy and dim wind, rain, and cold. Because the latter is longer, heavier and more meaningful than the former. I often think of a painting by the Dutch painter van Gogh entitled "Spring" in the presence of any young man: in the background of several small, cramped houses, with a peach or apricot tree standing and a few pink flowers blooming lonely on the branches of the branches. I think that this tree has gone through a long period of wind and rain, and is still enduring the spring cold, surrounded by a poor world, but flowing in the branches with the juice of life. It's a real, unboasting spring! This is not the case with young people, who do not need to grow all the time, but there is not always the eyes and the warm wind outside.
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
It's good to survive in loneliness, because loneliness is hard; When things are difficult, it gives us even more reason to do it.
Rilke, "Ten Letters to a Young Poet".
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