Irony…
December 31, 2009 12:21 pmDo not let yourself be governed by it, especially not in unproductive moments. In productive ones try to make use of it as one more means of seizing life. Used purely, it is itself pure, and one need not be ashamed of it; and when you feel too familiar with it, when you fee the growing intimacy with it, then turn towards great and serious subjects, before which it will become small and helpless. Seek for the depth of things: there irony never descends–and when you have thus brought it to the edge of greatness, test at the same time whether this mode of perception springs from a necessity or your being. For under the influence of serious things it will either fall away from you (if it is something non-essential), or else it will (if it belongs to you innately) with gathering strength become a serious tool and be ranked among the means by which you will have to form your art.
~Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet
Author: Franz Xaver Kappus
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