where life flows, your unsolved heart (4 December 2016)

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart...

- Rainer Maria Rilke

handmade brushes of printmaker Seong Cho

 John Wolseley with canvas

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

John Wolseley at work on his bush property, captured in the documentary, Wild Cries Wild Wings of Wetland and Swamp, 2010 (via youtube)

What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that is what you must be able to attain. To be solitary as you were when you were a child...

- Rainer Maria Rilke

Bruce Armstrong, Bunjil / Eagle, 2002

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

Ben Quilty, Untitled - Budgie, 2005

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

Once the realisation is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

Bruce Armstrong, The Guardians, 1987

Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

John Olsen, Jacanas, The Christ Bird, 1983