Poetry

Poetry is the liberation of language, a doorway to the Inside, that which is real behind outward form, an ideas flow behind the veil. I believe that poetry in its fullness is like a map to the hidden realms of the beauty of true personhood, a sacrament of true reality.

Rainer Maria Rilke in his "Letters to a young poet" writes:

There is only one way: Go within. Search for the cause, find the impetus that bids you write. Put it to this test: Does it stretch out its roots in the deepest place in your heart? Can you avow that you would die if you were forbidden to write? Above all, in the most silent hour of your night, ask yourself this: Must I write? Dig deep into yourself for a true answer. And if it should ring its assent, if you can confidently meet this serious question with a simple, "I must", then build your life upon it........ I know of no other advice than this: go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth. At its source you will find the answer to the question, whether you must write.