The Knot in the Rosary
Rilke on How Difficulty Can Fuel Creativity and Why Feedback Poisons Art
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All art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, to where no one can go any further.”
Shortly before he began writing what would become the legendary Letters to a Young Poet, 26-year-old Rainer Maria Rilke (December 4, 1875–December 29, 1926) moved to Paris to write a monograph on the sculptor Rodin, but soon sank into profound spiritual anguish…
