Letters to a Young Poet: With the Letters to Rilke from the ''Young Poet''

Letters to a Young Poet: With the Letters to Rilke from the ''Young Poet'' | Damion Searls, Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus

My physical and audio TBR for Dewey‘s Reverse Readathon! I‘m so excited!

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Letters to a Young Poet: With the Letters to Rilke from the ''Young Poet'' | Damion Searls, Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus

My ā€next upā€¯ stack! Books 65-67.

LiteraryinLawrence The Kitchen Front is on my list to read! 3y

Kristin_Reads @LiteraryinLawrence A friend recommended it to me. I‘m looking forward to it! 3y

janeycanuck I quite enjoyed the Kitchen Front, it‘s a nice change from the typical historical war fiction. 3y

Kristin_Reads @janeycanuck That‘s good to hear! Glad you enjoyed it. 3y

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Nute

Letters to a Young Poet: With the Letters to Rilke from the ''Young Poet'' | Damion Searls, Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus

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This is a reread for me. I can recall reading it the first time with precise clarity. I walked around the bookstore with this book in hand. Not yet purchased, but with full awareness that I was not leaving without it. It was already important. From the first page, it was already of essence...a need in the language of artful living. I sat in the back corner of my favorite indie bookstore, a space filled with the books that no one came to visit.š‘‡š¸½

Nute In this unnoticed corner, I read this book, this group of letters filled with plain language & wisdom-soaked sentences. With words that inebriated a thirsting spirit. When I finished I knew that my soul had been transformed. I had experienced a type of metamorphosis. I was changed. I knew that I would seek words strung into sentences that emit such beauty & truthfulness for all the days of my life. This book did that! This book demanded that!š‘‡š¸½
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Nute Highly recommended!

Oh, it is cool to read the responses from The Young Poet this time around. A new aspect from the book that I originally read. That feels like an extra serving of something special!

Oh, oh, I was just thinking how amazing it would be to get something like this (the gift of an exquisite correspondence) in reply to a simple inquiry to a writer. Who would give this much of themselves?
Simply blown away! (edited) 3y

MayJasper I love what you've written. 3y

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kspenmoll I so love love your review. I have never read this. Now I need to. Thank you!!! 3y

Faibka Beautiful review 3y

nanuska_153 Amazing review! 3y

GatheringBooks I love your response to rilke. I pretty much had the same awakening when i first read it. Tried reading it to my teenage daughter, it wasn‘t to her liking. šš‚ must be a generational thing. 3y

Reggie Awww not only a lovely review but reminds me of when I lived in Las Cruces and Hastings, this video and books place, was still around and they had these chairs to lounge around in while you read, and I remember reading a couple feeling the exact way that you aren‘t leaving there without that book. Great post, Nute!ā¯¤ļø¸ 3y

vivastory What a perfect review for one of my favorite books about a great poet! 3y

vivastory @Reggie I applied for a job at Hastings once. I was hired, but ended up continuing to work somewhere else. It was one of the most unusual interviews. Out of the blue the interviewer asked me to convince them to buy the pencil on the desk š‚ 3y

Reggie @vivastory I hate those questions. For a waiter position at this pretentious restaurant not only did I have to do 2 interviews and pass a written test I failed at the end when he said- sell me this coke. He just said congrats for making it this far but he had all the staff he needed. I swore to never eat in that restaurant. And I kept that promise until 10 years later a coworker was leaving for good and I told her I‘d take her to dinner anywhere 3y

Reggie And of course she had to pick that restaurant. Lol. I miss Hastings. 3y

Nute @MayJasper Thank you, Ms. Jane!š’• 3y

Nute @kspenmoll Thank you, Ms. Katherine! I hope that you find your way to this little treasure of a book very soon!š’• 3y

Nute @Faibka Thank you, Ms. Faibka!š’• 3y

Nute @nanuska_153 Thank you, Ms. Agueda!š’• 3y

Nute @GatheringBooks Thank you, Ms Myra! I feel like the wisdom contained in this book is timeless and should reach across generations, but maybe because young folks in these days are exposed to much information so rapidly and with easy accessibility, they feel that they come programmed with life lessons from the jumpstart. I love that you tried to make it a Mom-Daughter reading experience. Something wonderful still came out of that moment,š‘‡š¸½ 3y

Nute @GatheringBooks š‘†š¸½even if just a discussion of why it wasn‘t to her liking.āŗļø¸ 3y

Nute @Reggie Thank you, Reggie! Many of the local bookstores out this way removed sitting areas well before COVID-19 struck. I was so curious about the loss of bookstore coziness and ambience that I asked, ā€ Why would you do that? Don‘t you want folks to sit and read awhile before they purchase...you know, get a feel for the book?ā€¯ The reply, ā€Customers sit and read the whole book and feel no need to buy.ā€¯š‘‡š¸½ 3y

Nute @Reggie š‘†š¸½My reply, ā€Browsing patrons go with the territory of book selling.ā€¯ A few months later I was in the bookstore with my elderly Father who fatigues quite easily, we couldn‘t leisurely linger because he needed to sit and rest and there were no chairs. I told the store manager what a disappointment that situation created because it is not often that my Dad accompanies me to a bookstore. She offered to get him a chair, but not the sameš‘‡š¸½ 3y

Nute @Reggie š‘†š¸½ as an established cozy reading nook! 3y

Nute @vivastory Thank you, Scott! We are similar in reading taste once again!š’• 3y

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Faibka

Letters to a Young Poet: With the Letters to Rilke from the ''Young Poet'' | Damion Searls, Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus

ā€There is only one loneliness, and it is vast, and hard to bear, and almost everyone has moments when they would so much rather trade it for a feeling of community, no matter how cheap and trivial -for the illusion of even a slight harmony with any unworthy substitute that comes along...ā€¯

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Faibka

Letters to a Young Poet: With the Letters to Rilke from the ''Young Poet'' | Damion Searls, Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus

ā€The future is stationary, my dear Mr. Kapppus; it is we who are moving in infinite spaceā€¯

readingjedi Beautiful kitty! 3y

GingerAntics Is he or she enjoying the story? 3y

BookishMarginalia Gorgeous kitty! #CatsofLitsy 3y

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Faibka @readingjedi Brian says thank you šš’• 3y

Faibka @GingerAntics I think he was though he was more concerned that I was sitting in his spot š† 3y

Faibka @BookishMarginalia thank you! šš’• 3y

GingerAntics Oh, so he‘s a bit like Sheldon. That spot has a perfect view of the window with the birds and squirrels, but not too drafty in winter or hot in the summer. It‘s in the perfect spot to be ignored during naps, but not so hidden that you can see to his needs when it‘s time for a treat or a snack. š¤£š‚š¤£ 3y

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Faibka @GingerAntics hahaha yup! Exactly! Omg I loved your comment š‚š¤£š¤£ you understand Sheldon and cat psychology well š† 3y

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Faibka

Letters to a Young Poet: With the Letters to Rilke from the ''Young Poet'' | Damion Searls, Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus

ā€I want to ask you, dear sir, as best as I can, to have patience with everything that is still unresolved in your heart; try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a truly foreign language. Don‘t look for the answers now: they cannot be given to you yet because you cannot yet live them, and what matters is to live everything.ā€¯
I love that this edition includes the other side of the conversation

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