You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of expressing and realizing one's creative visions as they hold the potential for future significance.
Rainer Maria Rilke's quote speaks to the act of creation, suggesting that artists and individuals must manifest their inner visions or 'images' into the world. These images represent potential futures that need to be nurtured and brought to life, as they are not just fleeting thoughts but rather important contributions waiting to emerge.
In practice
An artist might use this quote to inspire their audience at an art exhibition.
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 purpose of theatre is... making an event in which a group of fragments are sudde nly brought together... in a community which, by the natural laws that make every community, gradually breaks up... At certain moments this fragmented world comes together and for a certain time it can rediscover the marvel of organic life ... The marvel of being one.
Not surprisingly, he began to sing, and because no one in the world could hear him, and he sang without inhibition, he sang well.
I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.
The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be
Purple Haze all in my brain, lately things don't seem the same. Actin' funny but I don't know why. 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.
Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want to see or let anyone else see, and this stuff usually turns out (paradoxically) to be precisely the stuff all writers and readers share and respond to, feel.
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