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21.01 poetry and lyrics đź–‹
21.01 Poetry and Lyrics đź–‹ [[Rhyme schemes]] [[Rhythmic variation]] [[Ding-dong theory]] [[Poetic meter]] [[The effects of enjambment]] [[Figures of rhetoric]]...
24 creativity đź’ˇ
24 Creativity đź’ˇ [[24.01 Being Your Own Creative Self đź“Ł]] [[24.02 Creative Block and Creative Flow đźš°]] [[24.03 Creativity and...
Authentic feeling and experience destines us for our vocation
Authentic feeling and experience destines us for our vocation Rilke says the more still, patient, and open one is, the...
Be open to difficulty
Be open to difficulty Openness to experience, both the good and bad, is, as Kaufman and Gregoire say, the “strongest...
Being an artist means ... ripening like the tree —rainer maria rilke
“Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and...
Everything needs time to gestate
Everything needs time to gestate
![[Everything that is allowed to be still will be much better —Thich Nhat Hanh]]
Find your voice in obscurity and solitude
Find your voice in obscurity and solitude You already have a voice; it’s built into you.1 Rilke says you must...
In one creative thought
“In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation.” - Rainer Maria...
It is clear that we must hold to what is difficult
“People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of...
Observe the little things
Observe the little things In a meditative state, things that usually mean nothing to me can mean everything.1 [[Creative, Not...
Read as little as possible of aesthetic criticism
Read as little as possible of aesthetic criticism This advice comes from Rilke. Aesthetic critiques are either partisan and indurate,...
That alone is living the artist's life
“To let each impression and each germ of a feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in...
The work for which all other work is but a preparation —rainer maria rilke
“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the...
Use irony honestly
Use irony honestly Rilke says to avoid irony in uncreative moments. In creative moments, it can be used as a...
Why create?
Why create? You must ask yourself, Why do it? What do you gain? Why are you here to do it?1...
Why want to exchange a child's wise incomprehension
“Why want to exchange a child’s wise incomprehension for defensiveness and disdain, since incomprehension is after all being alone, while...
With nothing can one approach a work of art so little
“With nothing can one approach a work of art so little as with critical words: they always come down to...