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4.22 AVERAGE
4.22 AVERAGE
Take a shot every time this guy mentions solitude (or rather don't).
No, but actually, this was beautiful, I'll never understand how does one just casually write this.
No, but actually, this was beautiful, I'll never understand how does one just casually write this.
what. these letters that were 50 pages long changed my whole life. i cant even describe how much i love rilke and am thankful for his works, i thought that his poems were incredible, but apparently his letters are even more inspirational and wonderful-
This book was more than what I expected. Yes it provides practical ways in artistic creation but in the most part it suggests that the process of creating art is more than forming verses and putting paint on a canvas - art is a way of living. (I will not unpack this here, let the book do it.) The product is a mere snapshot of your life, a frame to a movie as an artwork to your life. Art is the language of the soul and what else can experience the beauty and grandness of life but the soul?
Rilke masterfully explains profound things not just about art but in life as well with such accurate visualizations and metaphors that most of the time I found myself stop in awe of his words and of how it made sense. Although there were points that I do not completely agree with him, I still fell in love with his writing and his approach in certain things in life.
The book is only around 80 pages but it took me a while to finish it for there is so much to unpack in each letter. I needed time to digest the content and even after finishing the book I can't say I have fully digested everything but just as Rilke said
"...which like all progress must come from deep within and cannot be forced or accelerated. Everything must be carried to term before it is born. To let every impression and the germ of every feeling come to completion inside, in the dark, in the unsayable, the unconscious, in what is unattainable to one's own intellect, and to wait with deep humility and patience for the hour when a new clarity is delivered"
Rilke masterfully explains profound things not just about art but in life as well with such accurate visualizations and metaphors that most of the time I found myself stop in awe of his words and of how it made sense. Although there were points that I do not completely agree with him, I still fell in love with his writing and his approach in certain things in life.
The book is only around 80 pages but it took me a while to finish it for there is so much to unpack in each letter. I needed time to digest the content and even after finishing the book I can't say I have fully digested everything but just as Rilke said
"...which like all progress must come from deep within and cannot be forced or accelerated. Everything must be carried to term before it is born. To let every impression and the germ of every feeling come to completion inside, in the dark, in the unsayable, the unconscious, in what is unattainable to one's own intellect, and to wait with deep humility and patience for the hour when a new clarity is delivered"
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
Short but pretty interesting
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
a must read
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
„Jūs dar toks jaunas, dar stovite prieš visas pradžias, tad ir noriu Jus, mielasis pone, kaip įmanydamas įtaigiau paprašyti, kad turėtumėt kantrybės viskam, kas Jūsų širdyje dar neišrišta, ir kad mėgintumėt pamėgti pačius klausimus nelyg užrakintus kambarius arba nelyg knygas, parašytas be galo svetima kalba. Neieškokite dabar atsakymų, kurie Jums negali būti duoti, nes Jūs negalėtumėte jų gyventi. O juk svarbu kaip tik viską gyventi. Gyvenkite dabar klausimus. Tuomet, galbūt palengva, nei pats nepastebėdamas, vieną tolimą dieną pasijusite begyvenąs atsakymą“
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Since this is one side of correspondences, I think it has to come to the reader at a right place and time. While some passages resonated with me, some I had to ponder and think about if I agree with or not. Given that, I think I would've loved to see at least excerpts of what Franz Xaver Kappus had to say, for Rilke to have responded like that. But it was not the point of the collection, and we, as readers, are the listener, the one seeking advice. Perhaps if I read this at a different point in my life, I would've liked it more.