/lit/ - Literature

>Im Zustande zwischen Sein und Nichtsein wird aber überall das Mögliche real, und das Wirkliche ideal, und dies ist in der freien Kunstnachahmung ein furchtbarer, aber göttlicher Traum.

Tell, don't show.

>>14047451
Try your hand at narrative poetry. Quit your introspection and put a hero out into the world, or a child with a goose. Writing a non-gloomy poem in difficult times is like pulling yourself out of the mud by the end of your hair: a questionable undertaking in the eyes of the logician; a fun image nonetheless. Do whatever it takes. Don't listen to my motivational speech, just start working on it. You are standing in front of a wall and looking for a crack to squeeze through; you are the mouse and the cat is screaming behind your back. Do whatever it takes to get yourself in a working condition again. If you are gloomy and your heart full of malice, put your heart away and write about a man writing a bicycle with triangular wheels. It doesn't matter. Just keep yourself alive (the poet in you). There has to be something there, that which got you started, and even if it has been nothing but vanity, you take that bugger and squeeze the juice out. Oh, and another think: quit thinking so much about your condition. Quit being sorry for yourself. Quit blaming anything. There is only your work and that which is between you and your work. Put it all away and go to work. "Oh another shit poem!" ten years later "oh another shit poem" and finally, with enlightenment: "oh another poem"

Nah. I'm with the other anon on this one. Just you being you is enough - enough to be cared for, enough to be loved, enough to be kissed and embraced. Sure you have to improve yourself, have to try to become the best you can be; but nothing you do can make your own once in a lifetime special thing leave. I have built for every being a little shelf, to put them on it, and to admire them and to love them. This I do not do for some philosophical reason, but for the sake of myself - I much rather be the loving fool than the grey-haired grump. Is this not understandable? Is this not beautiful: "It is better to love and be unreasonable than to be reasonable and love not". And who knows whether to love deeply every soul is unreasonable or not? it might be or might not be. But who am I to think myself smart enough to solve this riddle, to confidently say: "Oh, by the way, if you haven't heard already: People are worth nothing! Taadaa!". I am not smart enough to take some nitzschean risk. I have to put my money on the safe bet. The saints and my heart tell me to love everyone. How can I say no to such a sweet plea?

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>Religion = something + dignified solemnity.
Christianity's something is Love. Christianity is the poetics of Love. If you center your life around Love, you are a Christian. Love is your main dish, crispy wild boar roast, while everything else is the garnish, the cranberries and the lettuce. Love is God, that which humbles you, that in which's presence you cast aside your Self. If you believe in Love as the guiding principle, you believe in God; for one is not different from the other. You might say "Love is just chemicals"; ok, then God is the sublimation of certain chemicals; do you think I'm afraid of weird statements? Love makes the unreasonable reasonable.

God is that which is put above all other things and which is prayed to and believed in. "Love", "chemicals", "God" - jut words. You know what is meant when it is said that "Love is God" and "God is Love" and "Believe in God" and "You need no proof" and "Just make Love the sun of your life" - What more do you need to know? Just do it - thats what I think. Never have I thought to myself, when someone said "I believe love is the most important thing", "What a fool!", always have I thought "Good for you". Because some Gods are like heavy weight on your shoulders, and some are like wings; some lead you to the abyss and stop, while some spread out like an ethereal bridge and let you cross over.

>>14031650
Maybe it won't work out, maybe it will; either way it will be an interesting journey. Enjoy yourself, fellow fantasy bro. Become what in your dream you already are.

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>>14015222
I'm happy for you. I encourage you to keep practicing.

The current generation of writers should delve into the romantic period; maybe they'll lose some of their timidity.

>>13917352
just try to be a good human being every day - that is enough

>>13844677
>I honestly believe they're still just escapism to help me forget life for a few minutes or hours.
They are life, though, and not different from it at all. Whats the problem here? Escape from one aspect of life to another? This is neither unusual nor bad. Who is to say what is important and what is not? Who is to say that what is important must be done? Who knows what will happen on ones deathbed. For me, art keeps me away from the deathbed. Death is very cozy, I need even more cozyness in my life to keep wanting to live. In that way, art keeps me afloat. Maybe I'll forget on my deathbed how I see art now, but the fact is that art was a very important thing to me. I change everyday because of it. Although you cannot help but to change each day.

>>13840280
you know why, scum
ganbatte kudasai

>>13838262
You sir, are a man of extremely refined taste.