"Creative Life Writing" with Andrea Beard

But to make, to make is the thing.

And once something is there, 

ten or twelve things are there,

sixty or seventy little records about one, 

all made of now out of this, 

now out of that impulse, then one has already 

won a piece of ground on which one can stand upright.

Then one no longer loses oneself. 

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke 1892-1910