rilke-beginner

January 15, 2025

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.

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“…the greatest poetry, like the greatest prose, has a doubleness; the poet is talking to you on two planes at once.”

T. S. Eliot

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