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June 5, 2007
rilke on rodin I
Rodin was solitary before he became famous. And Fame, when it came, made him if anything still more solitary. For Fame, after all, is but the sum of all the misunderstandings which gather about a new name.
He stood alone, and had he been only a dreamer he might have dreamt a dream deep and beautiful, which none would have understood, one of those long, long dreams in the dreaming of which life passes like a day. But this young man, employed in the factory at Sevres, was a dreamer whose dream went to his hands and he began forthwith to achieve its realization. He felt where he must begin; a calmness in him showed him the true way.
Rilke - Auguste Rodin
Posted by amin at June 5, 2007 4:29 PM