and don't expect any understanding but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it. Between 19, a few years prior to his magnum opus, the Austrian poet engaged in a correspondence with a 19-year-old student at the Military Academy of Vienna, Franz Xaver Kappus, who sought advice on the art of writing, the power of discernment and the affairs of the human heart. He became famous with such works as Duineser Elegien and Die Sonette an Orpheus. He created the 'object poem' as an attempt to describe with utmost clarity physical objects, the 'silence of their concentrated reality.'. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust. Rilke 1875-1926 was considered one of the greatest German lyric poets of his day.

be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast. Most readers and scholars have long assumed that the letters from the young poet were forever lost to posterity. “Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For nearly a century, eager writers and young poets, as well as those simply looking for a purpose in life, have embraced the wisdom of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, first published in 1929.

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