Letters to a Young Poet
Ranked #20 in German, Ranked #27 in Poetry Writing — see more rankings.
Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young, would-be poet on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Those letters, still a fresh source of inspiration and insight, are accompanied here by a chronicle of Rilke's life that shows... more
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Todd Henry A book of mentorship for young artists. (Source)
Estella Ng Letters to a Young Poet - it is everything. [...] This line in Letters to a Young Poet “If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches" is an important one to me. I constantly go back to this to evaluate if I have been living a full life. (Source)
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- #73 in 1920S
- #51 in Creative Writing
- #46 in Creativity
- #88 in Journals
- #45 in Poetry
- #96 in Writers
- #44 in Writing
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