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Letters to a Young Poet (Penguin Classics)

Rainer Maria Maria Rilke

At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely influential for writers and artists of all kinds. T...

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On Being with Krista Tippett

The interviewee recounts a transformative experience reading this book of Rilke's in a French translation when he was nineteen. It sparked his interest in Rilke's work and led him to learn German to read the original poems.

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And I felt just really blown out by the intimacy of this writer talking about love and beauty and solitude in ways that I had never even guessed that it was just a incredibly powerful experience for m...

— Episode: [Unedited] Stephen Mitchell with Krista...

Episode: [Unedited] Stephen Mitchell with Krista Tippett

The interviewee recounts a transformative experience reading this book of Rilke's in a French translation when he was nineteen. It sparked his interest in Rilke's work and led him to learn German to read the original poems.

"

And I felt just really blown out by the intimacy of this writer talking about love and beauty and solitude in ways that I had never even guessed that it was just a incredibly powerful experience for me and he was really my first experience of a teacher.

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