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
We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.
Now that the black experience isn't viewed as box-office death, people are catching up to untapped auteurs.
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.
One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.
Everybody comes to film differently; everybody has different backgrounds. Just find whatever your lane is naturally. Don't try to force yourself into someone else's vision or try to tell a story that you're not passionate about.
I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.
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