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bhagavan das music

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Jean-Paul Sartre in Paris in 1952, with Simone de Beauvoir, right, and the writer and musician Boris Vian and his wife, Michelle.

http://www.carrothers.com/rilke10.htm

Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more its neighbor, than in the unreal half-artistic professions, which, while they pretend to be close to art, in practice deny and attack the existence of all art - as, for example, all of journalism does and almost all criticism and three quarters of what is called (and wants to be called) literature. I am glad, in a word, that you have overcome the danger of landing in one of those professions, and are solitary and courageous, somewhere in a rugged reality. May the coming year support and strengthen you in that. Always Yours, R. M. Rilke

letters to a young poet

most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered; link http://www.carrothers.com/rilke3.htm