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A review by mint_renegade
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
one to return to, again and again.
rilke writes the way i imagine the waters below the surface move, slow, resolute, defiant. he shares so much wisdom in the space of 80 pages, with such simplicity. in my bid to sound wise, i often seek the words with the greatest flourish, thinking that their quality begets wisdom and beauty. of course, dostoyevsky and dumas will tell you this is true, and it is true, but i am neither. and so it is towards simplicity that i will seek refuge.
but why choose? there is in me a duality, both simple and ostentatious, better to have two ports than one.
rilke writes the way i imagine the waters below the surface move, slow, resolute, defiant. he shares so much wisdom in the space of 80 pages, with such simplicity. in my bid to sound wise, i often seek the words with the greatest flourish, thinking that their quality begets wisdom and beauty. of course, dostoyevsky and dumas will tell you this is true, and it is true, but i am neither. and so it is towards simplicity that i will seek refuge.
but why choose? there is in me a duality, both simple and ostentatious, better to have two ports than one.