https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Tue, 15 Apr 2014 08:51:21 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg https://anitamathias.com 32 32 https://anitamathias.com/2010/06/07/do-you-have-to-become-a-writer-rainer-maria-rilke/ https://anitamathias.com/2010/06/07/do-you-have-to-become-a-writer-rainer-maria-rilke/#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:27:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2010/06/07/do-you-have-to-become-a-writer-rainer-maria-rilke/ In this famous passage, German poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, asks a young poet whether he has to write. “You ask whether your verses are any good.  You ask me.  You have asked others before this.  You send them to magazines.  You compare them with other poems, and you are upset when certain editors reject your […]

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