When Considering Analysis

When considering analysis, discussion, or

presentation, listen to your inner self and to your
feelings every time. Should you be mistaken, after
all, the natural growth of your inner life will guide
you slowly and in good time to other conclusions.
Allow your judgments their own quiet, undisturbed
development, which, as with all progress, must come
from deep within and can in no way be forced or
hastened. All things consist of carrying to term and
then giving birth. To allow the completion of every
impression, every germ of a feeling deep within, in
darkness, beyond words, in the realm of instinct
unattainable by logic, to await humbly and patiently
the hour of the descent of a new clarity: that alone
is to live ones art, in the realm of understanding as
in that of creativity.

In this there is no measuring with time. A year
does not matter; ten years are nothing. To be an artist
means not to compute or count; it means to ripen as
the tree, which does not force its sap, but stands
unshaken in the storms of spring with no fear that
summer might not follow. It will come regardless. But
it comes only to those who live as though eternity
stretches before them, carefree, silent, and endless.
I learn it daily, learn it with many pains, for which
I am grateful: Patience is all!

Rainer Maria Rilke (from “Letters to a Young Poet”)

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