Originally Posted by
aubreymcfate
omg, Rilke appreciation & drugs & one of my fav songs to do my loony robot on lsd dance moves to. this thread just got so real. i am so moved. -wipes away tear-
This Henry Miller quote is a fantastic complement to the quote you posted, Rilla:
“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. there is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.”