Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke. Extracts to live by.
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These letters of the celebrated Austrian poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1825 – 1926), to a 19 year-old military student, named Franz Kappus encouraged the young man to pursue inner inqury, art, solitude and passion as a vehicle for inner transformation. Rilke says a work of art is good ‘if it is written out of necessity.’ He then goes on to tell Kappus to “wait for the hour when a new clarity is born: this alone is what it means to lives an artist.”
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke. Extracts to live by.
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria…
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke. Extracts to live by.
These letters of the celebrated Austrian poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1825 – 1926), to a 19 year-old military student, named Franz Kappus encouraged the young man to pursue inner inqury, art, solitude and passion as a vehicle for inner transformation. Rilke says a work of art is good ‘if it is written out of necessity.’ He then goes on to tell Kappus to “wait for the hour when a new clarity is born: this alone is what it means to lives an artist.”