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Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
4.75
challenging reflective fast-paced

A collection of letters written by Rilke to an aspiring poet. In the letter Rilke offers his advice on pursuing creative vocations including poetry. He emphasizes the importance of solitude and patience for an artist. Further he asks the young poet to stop looking for external validation, instead look into his own inner world for justification to pursue poetry.

Rilke is a very eloquent and graceful writer, and the letters are work of arts in themselves. He manages to pack a lot of wisdom in very few pages.