How do you measure your progress and creativity? Put it to this test: Does it stretch out its roots in the deepest place of your heart? Can you avow that you would die if you were forbidden to write? 2. Put it to this test: Does it stretch out its roots in the deepest place of your heart? Can you avow that you would die if you were forbidden to write?” Search for the cause, find the impetus that bids you write. You are looking outward and, above all else, that you must do now. Well now, since you have given me permission to advice you, I suggest that you give all that up. You send them to publishers you compare them with other poems you are disturbed when certain publishers reject your attempts. Rilke responds, “You ask whether your poems are good. Favorite Quotes from the Book Franz asks Rilke, “Are my poems good?” In the letters Rilke beautifully articulates advice on topics of creativity, dealing with criticism, inspiration, love, life, and loneliness. The book is a collection of Rilke’s replies over a series of 10 letters. In 1903 Franz Kappus (a 17 years old student) wrote the poet Rainer Maria Rilke (27 years old) asking his advice on becoming a writer. It’s some of the best advice on creativity. Imagine sending a letter to a friend using one letter at a time.
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