In this, my first week of daily posting as I come back from a writing hiatus, this gift from my deeply wise friend Bruce Peters came as a gift to me as I sat at my keyboard in flow, writing several posts for this week at once. It speaks to me as yes, I must write:
Confess to yourself in the deepest hour of the night whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write?
~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
I also commend the Rilke book to you. It is so full of wise gems, including the passage above I choose as the image for today’s post. I adore the idea of living and loving the questions.