Rilke's advice to a young anonymous poet was to write only when the inner force to express pounds against the body with such force that it threatens to break free of the body unless expressed...

I stopped writing for an year after I read those letters. But then I had to write again, it does not matter how good, how bad, what subject, what style... I write because I need to write, it is like sleep or sex or eating.

I am 26 and currently living in Washington D.C.