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  <title><![CDATA[Letters to a Young Poet/the Possibility of Being]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Rainer Maria Rilke]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Mar 19 21:02:36 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[i'm reading this right now and right now the world around me is over 400 advertisements a day plastered everywhere, hurtful, piercing and shrill.  It is needless cacophony over coffee, people stabbing at conversation- attacking it like chickens with meal.<br/><br/>It seems no one wants to use word...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18152275">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57248134">
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  <date_added>Mon May 25 08:30:41 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>Every once in awhile you read a book and it speaks to you on a personal level and it's almost eerie the way it's able to relate to you and your situation.<br/><br/>Stephen Mitchell's translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's, Letters To A Young Poet was a very short, but moving and beautiful read....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57248134">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18161877">
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  <date_added>Thu Mar 20 00:51:30 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Am absolute must read not just for aspiring writers but anyone wanting to live life. It one of those books you keep going back too and finding new meaning and energy to keep moving on the path of life.]]></body>
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    <review id="18766382">
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  <date_added>Thu Mar 27 10:59:34 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read this book over and over again!  I absolutely love it! There is just something about his advice that relates to more then just poetry. Love it!]]></body>
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    <review id="13068623">
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  <date_added>Mon Jan 21 11:47:30 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jan 21 11:48:33 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[don't know what edition i have but this one is to read and reread an infinite number of times.  a wonderful exploration of solitude]]></body>
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    <review id="19132716">
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read this so many times.  Evertime it gets better and so I am always &quot;currently reading.&quot;]]></body>
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    <review id="14308024">
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  <date_added>Fri Feb 01 15:15:19 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Feb 01 15:17:27 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have this book, read a little bit of it and now need to re visit it ! :)]]></body>
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    <review id="7925968">
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    <body><![CDATA[Any aspiring artist or simply a creative person.]]></body>
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    <review id="68127834">
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  <date_added>Wed Aug 19 20:22:31 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember feeling that this was pivotal for me when I read it. I was in need of pivotal then. Perhaps I am again? Absolutely worth another read!]]></body>
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    <review id="39584531">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful insights on love, solitude and creativity. I expect to read it a few more times, but hopefully when I'm NOT on a subway. ]]></body>
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    <review id="59122262">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very nice book ..... it's the type of book that I will reread it....in a few years]]></body>
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    <review id="71560067">
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    <body><![CDATA[I really am starting to love this book and identify with many of his insights.]]></body>
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    <review id="38468514">
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  <date_added>Sun Nov 23 13:22:27 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Nov 23 13:22:58 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am proud to hold this in my literary heritage.]]></body>
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    <review id="75543815">
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  <date_added>Fri Oct 23 18:33:40 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 23 18:33:56 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Anyone who writes poetry should read this book!]]></body>
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    <review id="40070430">
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    <name><![CDATA[Susan]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sun Dec 14 08:14:25 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this...]]></body>
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    <review id="17948311">
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    <name><![CDATA[Alex]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rilke era um completo desconhecido para mim, há duas semanas. Hoje posso dizer que desejaria muito, e muito mesmo, ter o privilégio de trocar algumas palavras com tão doce e singela criatura. &quot;Cartas a um jovem poeta&quot; mostra Rilke como um poeta humilde e generoso, apto a mostrar a seu c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17948311">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23469271">
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  <date_added>Sun Jun 01 17:12:18 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 01 17:14:08 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Este librito precioso, que no es exactamente el que figura en la foto, lo compramos en una librería que abrió hace poco llamada El Gatopardo. Si vienen a Madrid, no se la pierdan, está dentro de otra librería &quot;8 y medio&quot;.<br/>El libro me llegó mucho. Me lo había recomendado un viejo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23469271">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23717932">
    <user id="960848">
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  <date_added>Wed Jun 04 16:25:33 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jun 04 16:52:52 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this book in my early twenties when it was given to me by a mentor.  I have to admit that reading it then didn't affect me as much as I'd hope.  Then I read it again about 10 or 12 years later and suddenly it just bloomed inside me.  I've known some who found it brilliant on reading it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23717932">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20967001">
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    <name><![CDATA[Travis]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Astoria, NY]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have picked this book up again and again throughout the years, and it has never ceased to inspire me.  Although Rilke was quite young during these correspondences, his insights on the artistic life are deep and meaningful.  He was a hardcore dude! <br/>I think that anyone, an artist or not, could...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20967001">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was very interesting, seeing only one side of the correspondence. Was there really another poet? Probably, but at very least, this book concreted my belief that I cannot do anything but create. In fact, it even inspired me to get the ball rolling even faster certain projects. Its beautiful...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21425958">more...</a>]]></body>
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