"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

06 February 2016

Patience.


Being an artist means: 
not numbering and counting, 
but ripening like a tree, 
which doesn’t force its sap, 
and stands confidently in the storms of spring, 
not afraid that afterward summer may not come. 

It does come. 

But it comes only to those who are patient, 
who are there as if eternity lay before them, 
so unconcernedly silent and vast. 

I learn it every day of my life, 
learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!

Rainer Maria Rilke

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