Rainer Maria Rilke Quote

No one can advise or help you — no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.


Letter One (17 February 1903) - Letters to a Young Poet (1934)


No one can advise or help you — no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write;...

No one can advise or help you — no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write;...

No one can advise or help you — no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write;...

No one can advise or help you — no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write;...