Monday 23 May 2016

Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Letter to a Young Poet:” A Tribute -3


“Unfolding of fate,
like a wide wonderful fabric” he says.
every thread as if guided by
infinitely tender hands.

One alongside other,
supported by hundred others!
Blissful experience of reading such books
Dreams as if has unfolded anew!

Grateful it leaves you then,
with more simpler vision and deeper faith!
More of Marie Grubbe
and Jacobsen he suggest
Infinite sound, as it makes!

Read little of literary criticism
as it changes very often!
“Works of Art are of infinite solitude…” he says
meant to be loved, hold and be fair!

Trust yourself against all odds of
“argumentation, discussion and introduction.”
And, if you come to know that you are wrong
your “inner engineering of life,”
will lead you to other insights around!

Everything evolves from within,
gestation and then birthing!
Working hour after hours
with humility and patience…
for the birth of that clarity of Visions!
 
Essence of an artist,
“understanding as in creating.”
Time span just a cliché,
a year or ten, means nothing!

Numbering and counting,
not a trait of an artist
ripening like a tree, patiently waits,
“eternity as if lay before them…
unconcernedly silent and vast!”

The difficult test for the creator though is
“to remain unconscious,
unaware of his best virtues…”
Test where one isn’t robbed of
"candor and its innocence!"

And, when one loves only as a male
and not as a human being…
Something then appears
“wild, malicious, time bound, uneternal…”
Diminishing the art,
making it ambiguous and doubtful!

Even then enjoying
what is great in art!
Provides one with greatness
and courage for time, that lies ahead!

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