The book was clean and pristine when I bought it.
Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet leapt from the shelf right as I wandered in from the Viennese streets having pounded the pavement thinking about change.Īnd for the rest of the day the book didn’t leave my hands. This happens in your personal relationships (like Misha Thomas who appeared angelically in my life).Įnter a bookstore with a mind full of questions and a heart swollen to bursting and books will leap out at you, like magically animated medicine flying off the apothecary’s shelves. They say when the student is ready, the teacher appears. Life Lessons from Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet Review I’m lamenting my inability to connect personally to writers of such stature and such deep understanding of the human condition as Rainer Maria Rilke. I’m lamenting the lack of such powerful guiding lights in today’s cultural climate. Why is it that a series of ten letters from one Austrian poet to a younger apprentice poet read like the greatest self-help book I’ve ever read? Why are my greatest mentors men and women who died long before I was born?
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