Letters to a Young Poet (thing) by dustfromamoth

Letters To a Young Poet
translated by Steven Mitchell
courtesy of http://www.sfgoth.com/~immanis/rilke/letter1.html

Letter 1 "...ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write?"
Letter 2 "Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments."
Letter 3 "I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!"
Letter 4 "...try to love the questions themselves... books written in a very foreign language."
Letter 5 "...there is much beauty here, because everywhere there is much beauty."
Letter 6 "...there is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear..."
Letter 7 "...that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it."
Letter 8 "...ask yourself whether these large sadnesses haven't rather gone right through you..."
Letter 9 "...that you may find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith..."
Letter 10 "Art too is just a way of living..."

Letters To a Young Poet, 1	Letters To a Young Poet, 2	Letters To a Young Poet, 10	Letters To a Young Poet, 7
Letters To a Young Poet, 3	Letters To a Young Poet, 9	Letters To a Young Poet, 4	You who never arrived
Letters To a Young Poet, 6	Letters To a Young Poet, 5	Nobody sends snail mail anymore	Child in Red
Letters To a Young Poet, 8	One Hundred Years of Solitude	Promiscuity	Ethan Hawke
Would that I were a Poet	Paterson	Letters of Seiji Koga	To a Poet, who would have me Praise certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine
Dear Willa (from Portland)	Salty taste of blue things	Rainer Maria Rilke