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
New Jersey is the most poetic state: close enough to New York to be urban and cosmopolitan, far enough to be desirous and unsure; densely populated, but full of farms and woods, with the most deer of any state.
Real music lovers are actually my favourite kind of people because they like to know, rather than just be told what to think.
The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile.
When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.
Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.
You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd.
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