false 229358 <![CDATA[Letters to a Young Poet (Syrens)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg Letters to a Young Poet. At the end of this millennium, his slender book holds everything a student of the century could want: the unedited thoughts of (arguably) the most important European poet of the modern age. Rilke wrote these 10 sweepingly emotional letters in 1903, addressing a former student of one of his own teachers. The recipient was wise enough to omit his own inquiries from the finished product, which means that we get a marvelously undiluted dose of Rilkean aesthetics and exhortation.

The poet prefaced each letter with an evocative notation of the city in which he wrote, including Paris, Rome, and the outskirts of Pisa. Yet he spends most of the time encouraging the student in his own work, delivering a sublime, one-on-one equivalent of the modern writing workshop:

Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what recompense might come from outside.
Every page is stamped with Rilke's characteristic grace, and the book is free of the breathless effect that occasionally mars his poetry. His ideas on gender and the role of the artist are also surprisingly prescient. And even his retrograde comment on the "beauty of the virgin" (which the poet derives from the fact that she "has not yet achieved anything") is counterbalanced by his perception that "the sexes are more related than we think." Those looking for an alluring image of the solitary artist--and for an astonishing quotient of wisdom--will find both in Letters to a Young Poet. --Jennifer Buckendorff

]]> 46199 44 1208289 1924 Letters to a Young Poet total:4222|5:2231|4:1327|3:536|2:104|1:24| 4222 18303 5877 458 7906 4.36 9900 1009 753582 4.55 11 4 5295728 60698 46199 0486422453 9780486422459 353 <![CDATA[Letters to a Young Poet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170315515m/46199.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170315515s/46199.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46199.Letters_to_a_Young_Poet 4.34 3385 ]]> 1924 5 4 false Wed Aug 29 10:32:03 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 07:39:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> 31997772 230160 385236 0393310396 9780393310399 34 <![CDATA[Letters to a Young Poet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174352510m/385236.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174352510s/385236.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/385236.Letters_to_a_Young_Poet 4.37 314 Letters to a Young Poet. At the end of this millennium, his slender book holds everything a student of the century could want: the unedited thoughts of (arguably) the most important European poet of the modern age. Rilke wrote these 10 sweepingly emotional letters in 1903, addressing a former student of one of his own teachers. The recipient was wise enough to omit his own inquiries from the finished product, which means that we get a marvelously undiluted dose of Rilkean aesthetics and exhortation.

The poet prefaced each letter with an evocative notation of the city in which he wrote, including Paris, Rome, and the outskirts of Pisa. Yet he spends most of the time encouraging the student in his own work, delivering a sublime, one-on-one equivalent of the modern writing workshop:

Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what recompense might come from outside.
Every page is stamped with Rilke's characteristic grace, and the book is free of the breathless effect that occasionally mars his poetry. His ideas on gender and the role of the artist are also surprisingly prescient. And even his retrograde comment on the "beauty of the virgin" (which the poet derives from the fact that she "has not yet achieved anything") is counterbalanced by his perception that "the sexes are more related than we think." Those looking for an alluring image of the solitary artist--and for an astonishing quotient of wisdom--will find both in Letters to a Young Poet. --Jennifer Buckendorff

]]> 1924 5 3 false Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Thu Sep 04 09:44:07 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 05 08:18:16 -0700 2008 more...]]> 22299643 1164655 229358 0140389326 9780140389326 4 <![CDATA[Letters to a Young Poet]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/229358.Letters_to_a_Young_Poet 4.55 11 Letters to a Young Poet. At the end of this millennium, his slender book holds everything a student of the century could want: the unedited thoughts of (arguably) the most important European poet of the modern age. Rilke wrote these 10 sweepingly emotional letters in 1903, addressing a former student of one of his own teachers. The recipient was wise enough to omit his own inquiries from the finished product, which means that we get a marvelously undiluted dose of Rilkean aesthetics and exhortation.

The poet prefaced each letter with an evocative notation of the city in which he wrote, including Paris, Rome, and the outskirts of Pisa. Yet he spends most of the time encouraging the student in his own work, delivering a sublime, one-on-one equivalent of the modern writing workshop:

Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what recompense might come from outside.
Every page is stamped with Rilke's characteristic grace, and the book is free of the breathless effect that occasionally mars his poetry. His ideas on gender and the role of the artist are also surprisingly prescient. And even his retrograde comment on the "beauty of the virgin" (which the poet derives from the fact that she "has not yet achieved anything") is counterbalanced by his perception that "the sexes are more related than we think." Those looking for an alluring image of the solitary artist--and for an astonishing quotient of wisdom--will find both in Letters to a Young Poet. --Jennifer Buckendorff

]]> 1924 5 4 false Sat May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 15 09:42:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 15 09:58:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5750492 342152 46199 0486422453 9780486422459 353 <![CDATA[Letters to a Young Poet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170315515m/46199.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170315515s/46199.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46199.Letters_to_a_Young_Poet 4.34 4222 ]]> 1924 5 3 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Wed Sep 05 22:36:39 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 09:07:22 -0800 2009 Beauty and the Beast, Love and Hope. It goes: "How should we be able to forget those ancient myths, those myths about dragons that at thelast moment turn into princesses. Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are pr...more...]]> 17394447 600126 46199 0486422453 9780486422459 353 <![CDATA[Letters to a Young Poet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170315515m/46199.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170315515s/46199.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46199.Letters_to_a_Young_Poet 4.34 4222 ]]> 1924 5 4 false Sun Mar 09 15:46:05 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 09 16:46:44 -0700 2008 die.

This is a collection of Rilke's letters/life lessons to a very young poet who worked up the courage to send him a few samples. The letters are profoundly wise, sincere and loving.

If you are a young poet, you ...more...]]> 29466566 140130 46199 0486422453 9780486422459 353 <![CDATA[Letters to a Young Poet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170315515m/46199.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170315515s/46199.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46199.Letters_to_a_Young_Poet 4.34 4222 ]]> 1924 5 2 false Tue Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 18:03:05 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 19 18:39:26 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 70914624 2343573 385236 0393310396 9780393310399 34 <![CDATA[Letters to a Young Poet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174352510m/385236.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174352510s/385236.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/385236.Letters_to_a_Young_Poet 4.34 4222 Letters to a Young Poet. At the end of this millennium, his slender book holds everything a student of the century could want: the unedited thoughts of (arguably) the most important European poet of the modern age. Rilke wrote these 10 sweepingly emotional letters in 1903, addressing a former student of one of his own teachers. The recipient was wise enough to omit his own inquiries from the finished product, which means that we get a marvelously undiluted dose of Rilkean aesthetics and exhortation.

The poet prefaced each letter with an evocative notation of the city in which he wrote, including Paris, Rome, and the outskirts of Pisa. Yet he spends most of the time encouraging the student in his own work, delivering a sublime, one-on-one equivalent of the modern writing workshop:

Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what recompense might come from outside.
Every page is stamped with Rilke's characteristic grace, and the book is free of the breathless effect that occasionally mars his poetry. His ideas on gender and the role of the artist are also surprisingly prescient. And even his retrograde comment on the "beauty of the virgin" (which the poet derives from the fact that she "has not yet achieved anything") is counterbalanced by his perception that "the sexes are more related than we think." Those looking for an alluring image of the solitary artist--and for an astonishing quotient of wisdom--will find both in Letters to a Young Poet. --Jennifer Buckendorff

]]> 1924 4 1 false Fri Sep 11 19:56:14 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 20:15:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 15542587 344518 46199 0486422453 9780486422459 353 <![CDATA[Letters to a Young Poet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170315515m/46199.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170315515s/46199.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46199.Letters_to_a_Young_Poet 4.34 4222 ]]> 1924 4 1 false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 15 21:12:56 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 11:53:42 -0800 2008 briefly about ...more...]]> 1167551 82853 46199 0486422453 9780486422459 353 <![CDATA[Letters to a Young Poet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170315515m/46199.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170315515s/46199.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46199.Letters_to_a_Young_Poet 4.34 4222 ]]> 1924 5 1 false Fri May 11 16:12:12 -0700 2007 Sat May 12 21:49:55 -0700 2007 more...]]> 7768395 142024 385236 0393310396 9780393310399 34 <![CDATA[Letters to a Young Poet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174352510m/385236.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174352510s/385236.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/385236.Letters_to_a_Young_Poet 4.34 4222 Letters to a Young Poet. At the end of this millennium, his slender book holds everything a student of the century could want: the unedited thoughts of (arguably) the most important European poet of the modern age. Rilke wrote these 10 sweepingly emotional letters in 1903, addressing a former student of one of his own teachers. The recipient was wise enough to omit his own inquiries from the finished product, which means that we get a marvelously undiluted dose of Rilkean aesthetics and exhortation.

The poet prefaced each letter with an evocative notation of the city in which he wrote, including Paris, Rome, and the outskirts of Pisa. Yet he spends most of the time encouraging the student in his own work, delivering a sublime, one-on-one equivalent of the modern writing workshop:

Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what recompense might come from outside.
Every page is stamped with Rilke's characteristic grace, and the book is free of the breathless effect that occasionally mars his poetry. His ideas on gender and the role of the artist are also surprisingly prescient. And even his retrograde comment on the "beauty of the virgin" (which the poet derives from the fact that she "has not yet achieved anything") is counterbalanced by his perception that "the sexes are more related than we think." Those looking for an alluring image of the solitary artist--and for an astonishing quotient of wisdom--will find both in Letters to a Young Poet. --Jennifer Buckendorff

]]> 1924 4 1 false Tue Apr 08 05:56:12 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 15 17:22:17 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 15 17:22:17 -0700 2007 more...]]> 28750715 1340898 567698 1577311558 9781577311553 17 <![CDATA[Letters to a Young Poet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175871750m/567698.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175871750s/567698.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567698.Letters_to_a_Young_Poet 4.34 97 Small Graces and Letters to My Son.]]> 1924 5 1 false Mon Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 10:01:59 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 21:38:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 18506952 1018955 385236 0393310396 9780393310399 34 <![CDATA[Letters to a Young Poet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174352510m/385236.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174352510s/385236.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/385236.Letters_to_a_Young_Poet 4.34 4222 Letters to a Young Poet. At the end of this millennium, his slender book holds everything a student of the century could want: the unedited thoughts of (arguably) the most important European poet of the modern age. Rilke wrote these 10 sweepingly emotional letters in 1903, addressing a former student of one of his own teachers. The recipient was wise enough to omit his own inquiries from the finished product, which means that we get a marvelously undiluted dose of Rilkean aesthetics and exhortation.

The poet prefaced each letter with an evocative notation of the city in which he wrote, including Paris, Rome, and the outskirts of Pisa. Yet he spends most of the time encouraging the student in his own work, delivering a sublime, one-on-one equivalent of the modern writing workshop:

Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what recompense might come from outside.
Every page is stamped with Rilke's characteristic grace, and the book is free of the breathless effect that occasionally mars his poetry. His ideas on gender and the role of the artist are also surprisingly prescient. And even his retrograde comment on the "beauty of the virgin" (which the poet derives from the fact that she "has not yet achieved anything") is counterbalanced by his perception that "the sexes are more related than we think." Those looking for an alluring image of the solitary artist--and for an astonishing quotient of wisdom--will find both in Letters to a Young Poet. --Jennifer Buckendorff

]]> 1924 5 1 false Mon Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 24 09:11:24 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 15:48:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1502315 102434 385236 0393310396 9780393310399 34 <![CDATA[Letters to a Young Poet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174352510m/385236.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174352510s/385236.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/385236.Letters_to_a_Young_Poet 4.34 4222 Letters to a Young Poet. At the end of this millennium, his slender book holds everything a student of the century could want: the unedited thoughts of (arguably) the most important European poet of the modern age. Rilke wrote these 10 sweepingly emotional letters in 1903, addressing a former student of one of his own teachers. The recipient was wise enough to omit his own inquiries from the finished product, which means that we get a marvelously undiluted dose of Rilkean aesthetics and exhortation.

The poet prefaced each letter with an evocative notation of the city in which he wrote, including Paris, Rome, and the outskirts of Pisa. Yet he spends most of the time encouraging the student in his own work, delivering a sublime, one-on-one equivalent of the modern writing workshop:

Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what recompense might come from outside.
Every page is stamped with Rilke's characteristic grace, and the book is free of the breathless effect that occasionally mars his poetry. His ideas on gender and the role of the artist are also surprisingly prescient. And even his retrograde comment on the "beauty of the virgin" (which the poet derives from the fact that she "has not yet achieved anything") is counterbalanced by his perception that "the sexes are more related than we think." Those looking for an alluring image of the solitary artist--and for an astonishing quotient of wisdom--will find both in Letters to a Young Poet. --Jennifer Buckendorff

]]> 1924 4 1 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon May 28 18:29:42 -0700 2007 Tue May 29 15:46:07 -0700 2007 more...]]> 77910581 184218 46199 0486422453 9780486422459 353 <![CDATA[Letters to a Young Poet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170315515m/46199.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170315515s/46199.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46199.Letters_to_a_Young_Poet 4.34 4222 ]]> 1924 3 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 19:04:09 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 19:20:56 -0800 2009
"...and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that is unsolved in your heart and to try to cherish the questions themselves, like c...more...]]> 58549623 285565 567698 1577311558 9781577311553 17 <![CDATA[Letters to a Young Poet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175871750m/567698.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175871750s/567698.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567698.Letters_to_a_Young_Poet 4.34 4222 Small Graces and Letters to My Son.]]> 1924 1 0 false Sun Jun 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 10:36:24 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 17:51:32 -0700 2009 Letters to a Young Poet is one of those books that is so bad that I have to take notes while reading it to keep track of all the things I don't like about it.

This book is a collection of letters that the poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote to a young man, between 1903 and 1908, who had asked R...more...]]> 77421000 2444498 46199 0486422453 9780486422459 353 <![CDATA[Letters to a Young Poet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170315515m/46199.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170315515s/46199.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46199.Letters_to_a_Young_Poet 4.34 4222 ]]> 1924 5 0 false Wed Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 06:12:10 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 10:25:03 -0800 2009 once
It’s...more...]]> 46218251 1862140 567698 1577311558 9781577311553 17 <![CDATA[Letters to a Young Poet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175871750m/567698.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175871750s/567698.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567698.Letters_to_a_Young_Poet 4.34 4222 Small Graces and Letters to My Son.]]> 1924 5 0 false Mon Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 04:03:26 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 16:05:13 -0800 2009 more...]]> 65312688 2570919 46199 0486422453 9780486422459 353 <![CDATA[Letters to a Young Poet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170315515m/46199.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170315515s/46199.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46199.Letters_to_a_Young_Poet 4.34 4222 ]]> 1924 5 0 false Sun Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Jul 28 15:04:45 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 00:07:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 70002695 261425 46199 0486422453 9780486422459 353 <![CDATA[Letters to a Young Poet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170315515m/46199.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170315515s/46199.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46199.Letters_to_a_Young_Poet 4.34 4222 ]]> 1924 5 0 false Fri Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 21:15:24 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 21:19:26 -0700 2009
"You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign l...more...]]> 77941498 2313870 46199 0486422453 9780486422459 353 <![CDATA[Letters to a Young Poet]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170315515m/46199.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170315515s/46199.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46199.Letters_to_a_Young_Poet 4.34 4222 ]]> 1924 0 0 false Mon Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 05:16:38 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 05:16:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=229358