The stillest hour of your night
Sep. 28th, 2006 12:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonSending this out to anyone who might be considering quitting writing. Or anything else you love, really. I think Rilke's quote can be applied to anything that's important to you.
Random quote of the day:
"You are looking outward, and that above all you should not do now. Nobody can counsel you, nobody. There is only one single way. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you to write; find out whether it is spreading out its roots in the deepest places of your heart, acknowledge to yourself whether you would have to die if it were denied you to write. This above all—ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night: must I write?
—Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Random quote of the day:
"You are looking outward, and that above all you should not do now. Nobody can counsel you, nobody. There is only one single way. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you to write; find out whether it is spreading out its roots in the deepest places of your heart, acknowledge to yourself whether you would have to die if it were denied you to write. This above all—ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night: must I write?
—Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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Date: 2006-09-28 08:18 pm (UTC)But every time I scroll past this on my friends page, I read "the silliest hour of your night".
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Date: 2006-09-28 08:36 pm (UTC)My hero.
I read "the silliest hour of your night".
lol--can't be worse than me reading WFC as WTF each and every time I see it.
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Date: 2006-09-28 08:50 pm (UTC)About five years ago I realized two things: one, I must write; it's simply impossible for me to not communicate by writing even if it means I lose my dignity, my secrets, my cool. Two, quitting is my default reaction to things going badly awry, but it doesn't actually work.
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Date: 2006-09-28 11:31 pm (UTC)I think I'm going to copy that and it is going on my LJ profile page. It seems like a good place for it.
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Date: 2006-09-29 05:26 pm (UTC)