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Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
5.0

Mind blown. I’d read it 10 years ago in French but the English translation somehow resonates so much more.

How can a few letters written over a century ago be so actual, and necessary?

How the fuck does one talk about feminism, depression, trauma, spirituality and loneliness so profoundly, and yet with the casual detachment of a correspondance?

Definitely joining the select club of the few books I re-read every couple years.