A Little bit of Rilke in my life...

Due to suggestion of Shaena, I have started reading "Letters to a Young Poet."  While the book is for writing poetry, it's easy to replace "write" with "photograph" and "poems" with "photographs."  You get the idea...

"Things are not all so comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have us believe; most events are inexpressible, taking place in a realm which no word has ever entered, and more inexpressible than all else are works of art, mysterious existences, the life of which, while ours passes away, edures."

"Go into yourself.  Search for the reason that bids you write; find out whether it is spreading out its roots in the deepest places of your heart, acknowledge to yourself whether you would have to die if it were denied you to write.  This above all- ask your self in the stillest of your night: must I write?"