8. Letters To a Young Poet | Rainer Maria Rilke
This book was unbelievably hard to track down & purchase, you can try here & here.
Friends,
I heard about this book via my favourite podcast On Being.
Here’s what she’s about:
“A new translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet has been released in a world in which his voice and vision feel as resonant as ever before. In ten letters to a young person in 1903, Rilke touched on the enduring dramas of creating our lives — prophetic musings about solitude and relationship, humanity and the natural world, even gender and human wholeness. And what a joy it is to delve into Rilke’s voice, freshly rendered, with the translators. Krista, Anita and Joanna have communed with Rainer Maria Rilke across time and space and their conversation is infused with friendship as much as ideas.”
My fave of the ten:
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Ten
Paris, the day after Christmas, 1908
“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
―Rainer Maria Rilke