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A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity. — Rainer Maria Rilke

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A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.

In the original German

Ein Kunstwerk ist gut, wenn es aus Notwendigkeit entstand.

Rainer Maria Rilke
1929
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Art
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1929
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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Current citation
Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters to a Young Poet, translated by Charlie Louth. Penguin Classics, 2014.
Original citation
Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Franz Kappus. 17 Feb. 1903.

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