<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0007 Rilke on Solitude</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you notice that solitude is great, <br>rejoice because of this.<br>For what would solitude be<br>that had no greatness? There is<br>but one solitude, and that is great, <br>and not easy to bear, <br>and to almost everybody come hours<br>when they would gladly erxchange it for any sort of intercourse, <br>however banal and cheap; with the first comer, <br>with the unworthiest...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but perhaps those are the very hours <br>when solitude grows, for<br>its growing is as painful as the growing of boys<br>and sad as the beginning of springtimes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To be solitary, the way one was solitary as a child, <br>when the grownups went around involved with things <br>that seemed important and big <br>because they themselves looked so busy <br>and because one comprehended nothing of their doings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be close to things; they will not desert you; <br>there are the nights still<br>and the winds that go through the trees<br>and across many lands; <br>among things and with the animals<br>everything is still full of happening<br>in which you may participate; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and children are still the way you were as a child, <br>sad like that and happy, <br>- and if you think of your childhood<br>you live among them again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>(Abstracted from Rilke's letters to a young poet)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460379" data-title="0007 Rilke on Solitude de Michael Shepherd" data-description="If you notice that solitude is great, rejoice because of this. For what would solitude be that had no greatness? There is but one solitude, and that is great, and not easy to bear, and to almost everybody come hours when they would gladly erxch..."></div> </div> </div>

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