Rainer Maria Rilke quote about art from Letters to a Young Poet - 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. It does come.
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“ 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. It does come. ”
 Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (1929). copy citation

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Author Rainer Maria Rilke
Source Letters to a Young Poet
Topic art confidence
Date 1929
Language English
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Note Translated by Stephen Mitchell
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Rainer Maria Rilke quote about art from Letters to a Young Poet - 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. It does come.
Rainer Maria Rilke quote about art from Letters to a Young Poet - 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. It does come.