letters to young poet rainer maria rilke

His perspective, even where mine differed, engaged me in deep and interesting thought.'To express yourself, use the things that surround you, the pictures of your dreams and the objects of your recollections. Many, many things that he said (though not all) were deeply-profound and affecting, one quote by him in particular was relevant and moving in my life right now, and so I am thankful to have been able to read such words as his. These are 10 letters that Rainer Maria Rilke sent in reply to a young man who began the correspondence with regard to his own poetry's worth.I would very much like to read more from this man. Generally a handy volume to have around to dip back into when necessary. These letters are not just of use to the would-be poet, but contain so much good advice and insight into life that they would be worth reading for anyone who does not quite know what to do with themselves. At the end of this volume we have a brief section covering the context of what Rilke was doing around the time when he wrote each of these letters, which is useful to have. We do not have here the letters that Kappus wrote to Rilke, as these letters were only published years later by Kappus, who naturally did not have the copies of the letters he himself sent. He is kindly and helpful, and has much insight on the difficulties of life. Rilke is very sympathetic and understanding in these letters. It was only years later that Rilke receive the intense bout of creative inspiration that led to his writing the scores of poems of the celebrated Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus which he completed over a few weeks in 1922. Though he had already published two collections of poems which had made him relatively well-known, he was in a rut throughout much of this period, travelling around and working on various things, including a study of Rodin whom he got to know quite well. This was an interesting time for Rilke, who throughout was struggling to work productively. Franz Kappus wrote to Rilke who had been at the same military school as Rilke around a decade earlier, and received this letters in return to his ongoing correspondence between 19. These ten letters from the poet Rilke’s contain not only advice on poetry and writing in general, but advice on many of the facets of life itself.

Letters to young poet rainer maria rilke