As Maria said in an earlier post, we've been reading Rilke and using it as a base for visual research. I haven't looked at Maria's research in much detail, so as to have two different takes on the letters. My Pinterest board is here. I'm also including a few quotes that jumped out to me.
"...But perhaps those are the very hours when solitude grows; for its growing is painful as the growing of boys and sad as the beginning of sprintimes."
"He can remember that all beauty in animals and plants is a quiet enduring form of lovea nd longing, and he can see animals, as he sees plants, patiently and willingly uniting and increasing and growing, not out of physical delight, not out of physical suffering, but bowing to necessities that are greater than pleasure and pain and more powerful than will and withstanding."
"Most events are inexpressible, taking place in a realm which no word has ever entered, and more inexpressible than all else ware works of art, mysterious existences, the life of which, while ours passes away, endures."
"...for at bottom, and just in the deepest and most important, we are unutterably alone..."
"No experience has been too slight, and the least incident unfolds like a destiny, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide web in which each thread is guided by an infinitely tender hand and laid alongside another and held and borne up by a hundred others."
"Works of art are of an infinite loneliness..."
"...stairs that are built after the pattern of downward gliding waters--broadly bringing forth step out of step in their descent like wave out of wave."
Edit: The video on the Pinterest board is from this photographer. He has lots of great images here, some related to this project, some just beautiful to look at.
"...But perhaps those are the very hours when solitude grows; for its growing is painful as the growing of boys and sad as the beginning of sprintimes."
"He can remember that all beauty in animals and plants is a quiet enduring form of lovea nd longing, and he can see animals, as he sees plants, patiently and willingly uniting and increasing and growing, not out of physical delight, not out of physical suffering, but bowing to necessities that are greater than pleasure and pain and more powerful than will and withstanding."
"Most events are inexpressible, taking place in a realm which no word has ever entered, and more inexpressible than all else ware works of art, mysterious existences, the life of which, while ours passes away, endures."
"...for at bottom, and just in the deepest and most important, we are unutterably alone..."
"No experience has been too slight, and the least incident unfolds like a destiny, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide web in which each thread is guided by an infinitely tender hand and laid alongside another and held and borne up by a hundred others."
"Works of art are of an infinite loneliness..."
"...stairs that are built after the pattern of downward gliding waters--broadly bringing forth step out of step in their descent like wave out of wave."
Edit: The video on the Pinterest board is from this photographer. He has lots of great images here, some related to this project, some just beautiful to look at.
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