-- Ranier Maria Rilke
I found so much solace in "Letters to a Young Poet" when i read it as a young adult. i was majoring in english at UTSA and truly that; a young poet. not a very good one, but those were the circumstances. i hadn't yet really finished writing a song i liked. it was (and can still be) a bleak, existential time, despite the fact that life all around me was busy and seemingly good. his words even now are soothing in a way that scripture and fables never were for me.
i am still, and will always be, wary of my own work.
but when something springs forth unabated in the early morning or late, late night and you somehow snare it, then it feels as if those things might be worth showing to others. everything else remains secreted, waiting for an approval that may never come: thrown down a mineshaft at night.
