里爾克來信

在你夜深最寂靜的時刻問問自己：我必須寫嗎？你要在自身內挖掘一個深的答覆。若是這個答覆表示同意，而你也能夠以一種堅強、單純的「我必須」來對答那個嚴肅的問題，那麼，你就根據這個需要，去建造你的生活吧；你的生活直到它最尋常最細瑣的時刻，都必須是這個創造衝動的標誌和證明。

This above all: ask yourself in your night’s quietest hour: must I write? Dig down into yourself for a deep answer. And if it should be affirmative, if it is given to you to respond to this serious question with a loud and simple ’I must’, then construct your life according to this necessity; your life right into its most inconsequential and sightest hour must become a sign and witness of this urge.