Rilke: On Words, Experience and Art

"Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life."

Source: Stephen Mitchell, trans., Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet (NY: The Modern Library, 2001).