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Good advice. I think I lost 20 years of poetic productivity from taking Rilke’s advice too literally. Also, you are funny.

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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.

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Yeah, just read a lot and write a lot. That's all you can really do...

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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.

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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.

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Great advice! Thank you for this.

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