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"I'm cripplingly aware of how time passes and that I have to seize the moment (ie. Rilke's poem on apollo's torso), but these moments of realisation are all fleeting."
"Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet are required reading, and not just for poets, but for anyone engaged in difficult work — which includes creative pursuits, certainly, but also the work of being human. As Rilke writes, 'it is clear we must hold to the difficult; everything that lives holds to it, ever"
"Rainer Maria Rilke (originally named Rene, he changed it to Rainer at the behest of his married lover Lou Andreas-Salomé - famous friendzoner of Nietzsche and student of Freud - who thought Rainer sounded more masculine, strong, and Germanic)"
"anyone into rilke? greatgreatgreat poet/writer. letters to a young poet is beautiful. words cant describe it(not true, rilke's writing is just so beautiful and marvelous and gorgeous, just my words cant describe it). reading the notebooks of malte laurids brigge rn and its just gorgeous."