Always at the commencement of work that first innocence must be re-achieved, you must return to that unsophisticated spot where the angel discovered you when he brought you the first binding message… If the angel deigns to come it will be because you have convinced him, not with tears, but with your humble resolve, to be always beginning, to be a beginner.
“There is only one single way. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write; find out whether it is spreading out its roots in the deepest places of your heart, acknowledge to yourself whether you 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