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Letters to a Young Poet
Mas, por favor, reflita: será que essas grandes tristezas não o atravessaram bem em seu íntimo?
Rainer Maria Rilke • Cartas a um jovem poeta (Portuguese Edition)
You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to li
... See moreThis and nine more letters from Rilke to Kappus over six years came to be published as Letters to a Young Poet, one of history’s most urgent exhortations on the primacy of self-knowledge.
Joshua Wolf Shenk • Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs
My Dear Mr. Kappus,
In this time that has gone by without a letter I have been partly traveling, partly so busy that I could not write. And even today writing comes hard to me because I have already had to write a lot of letters so that my hand is tired. If I could dictate, I would say a great deal to you, but as it is, take only a few words for you... See more
In this time that has gone by without a letter I have been partly traveling, partly so busy that I could not write. And even today writing comes hard to me because I have already had to write a lot of letters so that my hand is tired. If I could dictate, I would say a great deal to you, but as it is, take only a few words for you... See more
Life Is Right (1904) - Tetragrammaton
