It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.
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Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. Letters to a Young Poet.
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Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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Whoever you are some evening take a step out of your house, which you know so well. Enormous space is near.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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