question of whether you must create. accept that answer, just as it is given to you, without trying to interpret it. perhaps you will discover that you are called to be an artist. then take that destiny upon yourself, and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside. for the creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in nature, to whom his whole life is devoted.

　　but after this descent into yourself and into your solitude, perhaps you will have to renounce becoming a poet (if, as i have said, one feels one could live without writing, then one shouldn't write at all). nevertheless, even then, this self searching that i ask of you will not have been for nothing. your life will still find its own paths from there, and that they may be good, rich, and wide is what i wish for you, more than i can say.

　　what else can i tell you? it seems to me that everything has its proper emphasis

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