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June 6, 2007
rilke on rodin II
There is in Rodin a deep patience which makes him almost anonymous, a quiet, wise forbearance, something of the great patience and kindness of Nature herself, who, beginning with some negligible quantity, traverses silently and seriously the long pathway to abundance.
Commissions which he carried out conscientiously, without any expression of his own growing personality. His own development went on simultaneously, uneasily in the cramped intervals of the day and in evening hours, spaciously in the solitary stillness of the night; and this division of his energies he had to suffer for many years. But he had the strength of those for whom some great work is waiting, the silent endurance of those whom the world needs.
Rilke - Auguste Rodin
Posted by amin at June 6, 2007 4:34 PM