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Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.Perhaps you do carry within you the possibility of creating and forming, as an especially blessed and pure way of living; train yourself for that - but take whatever comes, with great trust, and as long as it comes out of your will, out of some need of your innermost self, then take it upon yourself, and don't hate anything. (...) those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.
What is the first question of a writer?
Read about this in Ellopos' introductory note: The vigilance of a specific and strict discipline (Margin: Exploring the fiction)
Listen to Plato's answer : Books can be your worst enemies (Margin: Yeats, The Scholars)
Listen to Rilke answering all of this in his Letter to a young poet (Margin: We don't know ourselves!)
Read Aristotle's observations on The birth of poetry (Margin: John Keats, Art of communication)
