As if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose.
Interpretation
Expressing personal feelings and experiences is a unique and valuable endeavor.
Rainer Maria Rilke encourages individuals to articulate their innermost thoughts and emotions as if they were the first to do so, emphasizing the importance of personal expression in love, loss, and the beauty of perception. By daring to share oneβs experiences, one honors their individuality and contributes to the broader tapestry of human experience.
In practice
Sharing this quote during a poetry reading to inspire others to express their own feelings.
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
The majority of the people think that noise is not music. I want to accept noise and even errors and glitches. I enjoy them.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage, circumstances and features which nature distributes among many individuals. From this combination, ingeniously composed, results that happy imitation by virtue of which the artist earns the title of inventor and not of servile copyist.
The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.
A story is not like a road to follow... it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside it altered by being viewed from these windows.
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