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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46199.Letters_to_a_Young_Poet?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Letters to a Young Poet" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1170315515m/46199.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46199.Letters_to_a_Young_Poet?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Letters to a Young Poet</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7906.Rainer_Maria_Rilke">Rainer Maria Rilke</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1167551?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>Letters to A Young Poet is a correspondence between Rainer Maria Rilke (German lyrical poet) and Franz Xaver Kappus (A young struggling student). I was given this book by a good friend while I was teaching English in Belmead, TX (a small urban community north of Waco). This book came to me in a time when I was struggling with life and needed some encouragement to show me that what I was doing was needed and necessary. This book gave me that and more. <br/> <br/>The dialogue between these two men is incredible and the depth is solemnly found anywhere. I can’t say any more than that everyone who has ever struggled to find meaning in this chaotic world should be required to read this book. <br/> <br/>“…always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simplicity enough to believe; that you may acquire more and more confidence in that which is difficult, and in your solitude among others. And for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: LIFE IS RIGHT, IN ANY CASE.” <br/> <br/>Rainer Maria Rilke <br/>November 4th, 1904 <br/>Furuborg, Jonsered, in Sweeden <br/>Letter 9 <br/> <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/82853?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>