unfolding towards a new clarity, from the reading rilke series
unfolding towards a new clarity, 30 x 40 in, oil on canvas, 2010 Sharon Kingston Available for purchase
Allow your judgements their own undisturbed development,
which, like any unfolding,
must come from within
and can nothing be forced or hastened.
Everything is gestation and then birth.
To allow each impression
and each embryo of a feeling
to complete itself in the dark,
in the unsayable, the not-knowing,
beyond the reach of one's understanding,
and humbly and patiently to await
the dawning of a new clarity:
that alone is the way of the artist--
in understanding as in creating.
Letters to a Young Poet
Viareggio
April 23, 1903
Rainer Maria Rilke
translation by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
