"Rilke was a jerk"
Good advice. I think I lost 20 years of poetic productivity from taking Rilke’s advice too literally. Also, you are funny.
Good poets write a lot. Rilke was able to write a lot and have his profound silences, distances, sufferings, by taking advantaged of aristocratic ladies and loafing around in other people's castles lol.
Yeah, just read a lot and write a lot. That's all you can really do...
I almost want to read Rilke's advice now just to see how bad it is . . . but if it's bad, I don't want to know what it is.
If you read it as a series of prose poems there are some good passages, but I don't think he gave great advice...more a projection of his own trip.
Great advice! Thank you for this.
Good advice. I think I lost 20 years of poetic productivity from taking Rilke’s advice too literally. Also, you are funny.
Good poets write a lot. Rilke was able to write a lot and have his profound silences, distances, sufferings, by taking advantaged of aristocratic ladies and loafing around in other people's castles lol.
Yeah, just read a lot and write a lot. That's all you can really do...
I almost want to read Rilke's advice now just to see how bad it is . . . but if it's bad, I don't want to know what it is.
If you read it as a series of prose poems there are some good passages, but I don't think he gave great advice...more a projection of his own trip.
Great advice! Thank you for this.