What is the meaning behind this poem? "For The Sake Of A Single Poem"?

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What is the meaning behind this poem? "For The Sake Of A Single Poem"?

[For the Sake of a Single Poem]
by Rainer Maria Rilke
from The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
translated by Stephen Mitchell

...Ah, poems amount to so little when you write them too early in your life. You ought to wait and gather sense and sweetness for a whole lifetime, and a long one if possible, and then, at the very end, you might perhaps be able to write ten good lines. For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)- they are experiences. For the sake of a single poem, you must see many cities, many people and Things, you must understand animals, must feel how birds fly, and know the gesture which small flowers make when they open in the morning. You must be able to think back to streets in unknown neighborhoods, to unexpected encounters, and to partings you had long seen coming; to days of childhood whose mystery is still unexplained, to parents whom you had to hurt when they brought in a joy and you didn??t pick it up (it was a joy meant

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It is about reflection. Poetry is often deep and can express multiple view points. The author just wants you to stop, smell the roses, reflect on the smell, and describe it as it pertains to life. Don't just write.

Roses are red
violets are blue
I wrote this poem
screw you.