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Austrian poet and writer 1875–1926Related quotes
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“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
(1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer
from poem Go to the Limits of Your Longing.
Appears in movie Jojo Rabbit.
Variant: Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final
“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being defeated.”
L'étude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu.
III: "Le Confiteor de l'artiste" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Petits_Po%C3%A8mes_en_prose_-_III._Le_Confiteor_de_l%27artiste
Le Spleen de Paris (1862)
Source: Twenty Prose Poems