Saturday, May 21, 2011

From Letters To A Young Poet

"If you will cling to nature, to the simple in nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become big and beyond measuring; if you have this love of inconsiderable things and seek quite simply, as one who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier, more coherent and somehow more conciliatory for you, not in your intellect, perhaps which lags marveling behind, but in your inmost consciousness, waking and cognizance."
-Rainer Maria Rilike July 16th, 1903

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