Why not read Rainer Maria Rilke or Charles Bukowski? “In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write [

Why not read Rainer Maria Rilke or Charles Bukowski? “In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write [code]. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write [code]?” -- Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet Rilke apprenticed with the sculptor Rodin in Paris not learning sculpting as Rilke was a writer and poet, rather he learned how to see the world as an artist.