Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn’t force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come.
 Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (1929). copy citation

add
Author Rainer Maria Rilke
Source Letters to a Young Poet
Topic storm force
Date 1929
Language English
Reference
Note Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Weblink https://kbachuntitled.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/rainer-maria-rilke-let...