Cartas A Un Joven Poeta Rainer Maria Rilke -

He isn't romanticizing misery. He is saying that the voice you need to listen to is the one that only speaks when you are alone.

Permission to be slow. Permission to be unsure. Permission to be lonely without being broken. Permission to trust that the ache you feel is not a sign that you are doing life wrong, but that you are, perhaps for the first time, doing it right. cartas a un joven poeta rainer maria rilke

He tells the young poet to stop looking outward for validation. Don’t look for God in the church, don’t look for art in the galleries, and don't look for love in the mirror of another person just yet. Look at the boring, mundane, difficult things right in front of you. He isn't romanticizing misery