my first introduction with Rilke was through the bookt
letters to a young poet his book taught me a lot about poets life and philosophy for now its
the wisdom of rilke which is on my bedside table some of few topics which i loved in this book is his insight on art language nd love.
some of the favourite quotes from this book.
language
in what soil of misery we poet moles are digging around, never sure where we will push up and who might devour us at that very spot where we stick our dusty nose out of the soil.
art
art presents itself asa way of life, not unlike religion, science and socialism. it differs from these other modes of understanding only in that it is not a product of its time and appears, as it were, as the worldview of the ultimate goal.
love
there is no force in the world but love, and when you carry it within you, if you simply have it, even if you remain baffled as to how to use it, it will work its radiant effect and help you out of and beyond yourself one must never lose this belief , one must simply (and if it were nothing else}endure in it.
