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Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet Quotes: Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them and do them justice.
         

Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them and do them justice.


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Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them and do them justice.
         



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But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.



If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.



most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.

most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.



And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.

And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.



Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are.

Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are.



I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.

I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.



That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us

That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us



perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys

perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys



Let your judgements have their own quiet, undisturbed development, which must, like all progress, come from deep within, and cannot in any way be pressed or hurried.

Let your judgements have their own quiet, undisturbed development, which must, like all progress, come from deep within, and cannot in any way be pressed or hurried.



Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way--and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.

Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way--and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.





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For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands.

For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands.



I liked to explore different arts. But when I started acting, I knew this was the medium I want to be in for the rest of my life. Stories onscreen affect me the most.

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