Book Review: Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

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Book Review: Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

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A great epistolary about religion, love, life, pursuing the creative life (mostly as a poet/writer). Rilke was a real inspirational figure, dedicated to the craft, and embracing his loneliness not as a nuisance but as tool for self-reflection and well-being.

“Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.” 

“In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Be honest to those you love, show your pain. To suffer is as human as to breathe.” 

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