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"Do not think that the one who is trying to comfort you now with his simple and calm words, which sometimes provide you with comfort and pleasure, is living among them without distress. His life is full of distress and sadness, a distress that is very different from what you are experiencing, and if his life were not like that, he would not have been able to find those words." . Rainer Maria Rilke "The words in Rilke's letters are living words, in the sense in which we sometimes speak of a living experience. Every word in his letters was considered to have been experienced by him, to have undergone it, and certainly to have suffered through it. And every word he wrote leads us back to life, placing the writer and his readers within a broader Circles that do not know what lies outside them, beyond them, or what is greater than them." Ulrich Christian Bayer: "One of the most prominent things that can be pointed out in this context is the idea of ​​the inevitability of writing for the writer to the point of linking not writing with death, which is embodied in Rilke's question that he asks the young poet Kabus to address to himself: "Would you die if you were deprived of it?" And the conscience here refers to writing. For Rilke, writing, therefore, is not a luxury, a passing desire, or a whim that is soon extinguished, but rather it is equivalent to existence itself, to the extent of the cessation of existence with its absence. Abdul Wahab Abu Zaid