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Letters to a Young Poet

Written by: Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell - translator
Narrated by: Stephen Mitchell
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Ranier Maria Rilke challenges you, "...to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answers." Rilke's ability to combine the sensual and the spiritual into an inspired vision of the art of living is brought to vivid life in his letters. Through his eyes, the everyday difficulties of love, sex, solitude, sadness, and doubt are seen as the archetypal elements of the drama called life.
Recording (P)1990 by Audio Literature; Copyright ©1984 by Stephen Mitchell
Memoirs, Diaries & Correspondence Classics Poetry World Literature
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Beautiful

I will listen to this again and again. it is peaceful and kind and very relaxing.

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