Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.
 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 reason heart writing
Date 1929
Language English
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Note Translated by Stephen Mitchell
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