"Everything is gestation and then bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of a feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in the inexpressible, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one’s own intelligence, and wait with deep humility and patience the birth of a new clarity: that alone is living the artist’s life: in understanding as in creating."
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letter 3, Letters to a Young Poet
(Translated by M. D. Herter Norton)
(Source: takayomomma, via flaneur-)
