Letters to a Young Poet
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke offers profound insights on creativity, solitude, love, and the inner journey of the artist, encouraging self-discovery and deep reflection on one's artistic impulses.
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Rainer Maria Rilke said this most eloquently in Letters to a Young Poet, which he wrote in 1929 to encourage a nineteen-year old writer: I would like to beg you, dear sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very fo
... 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.