May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of natural expression and authenticity in one's actions, akin to a child's unrestrained creativity.
Rainer Maria Rilke's quote captures the essence of allowing creativity and actions to emerge naturally without struggle or inhibition. It draws a parallel with children, who express themselves freely and authentically, suggesting that adults should aspire to that same level of spontaneity and sincerity in their endeavors.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing one's passions.
Spring has again returned. _x000D_ _x000D_ The Earth is like a child that knows many poems._x000D_ _x000D_ Many, O so many. For the hardship_x000D_ _x000D_ of such long learning she receives the prize._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Strict was her teacher. _x000D_ _x000D_ The white in the old man's beard pleases us._x000D_ _x000D_ Now, what to call green, to call blue,_x000D_ _x000D_ we dare to ask: She knows, She knows!
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
The only journey is the one within.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.
I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white.
You must be an artist and a citizen of the world. You must speak to this stuff that's happening. You must do what you can to shine a light on it, help people through it.
I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there. It's about trying to blend the future and the past.
Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.
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