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Rainer Maria Rilke

“To go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept that answer, just as it is given to you, without trying to interpret it. Then take the destiny upon yourself, and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside. For the creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted.”

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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Letters to a Young Poet Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
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