“All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.”
Letter Nine (4 November 1904)
Letters to a Young Poet (1934)
Context: All feelings that concentrate you and lift you up are pure; only that feeling is impure which grasps just one side of your being and thus distorts you. Everything you can think of as you face your childhood, is good. Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom.
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Rainer Maria Rilke 176
Austrian poet and writer 1875–1926Related quotes
Variant: Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“[What do you think of music piracy?] Kills music! So, all that is pure emotion.”
From the interview «Carlo Prevale: il DJ che trasmette emozioni con le sue canzoni!» http://www.prevale.net/news-and-releases.html, Corriereinformazione.it
Original: (it) [Cosa pensi della pirateria musicale?] Uccide la musica! Quindi, tutto ciò che è pura emozione.
Source: From the interview by Federico Valenti, «Carlo Prevale: il DJ che trasmette emozioni con le sue canzoni!», Corriereinformazione.it, August 22, 2010; on Prevale.net http://www.prevale.net/news-and-releases.html.
“You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.”
Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 8
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 590.
