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Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
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it was amazing
bookshelves: translations, letters, author-m, own, nonfiction, under-200

In which Rainer Maria Rilke, both mercilessly and mercifully, bashes me over the head with a baseball bat from the other side of the Great Whatever.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
“The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. But once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.”
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke
“Things are not all so comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have us believe; most events are inexpressible, taking place in a realm which no word has ever entered, and more inexpressible than all else are works of art, mysterious existences, the life of which, while ours passes away, endures.”
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet


Reading Progress

January 27, 2008 – Shelved
January 27, 2008 – Shelved as: translations
May 15, 2008 – Shelved as: letters
February 18, 2009 – Shelved as: author-m
June 19, 2009 – Shelved as: own
January 9, 2010 –
page 22
19.64%
January 11, 2010 –
page 46
41.07%
January 13, 2010 –
page 56
50.0%
January 15, 2010 –
page 61
54.46%
January 18, 2010 –
page 68
60.71% "The slowest read since Dalloway, but, like Dalloway, that's not a bad thing."
March 25, 2010 –
page 244
100%
March 25, 2010 –
page 68
60.71%
Started Reading
May 31, 2010 – Shelved as: nonfiction
May 31, 2010 – Finished Reading
March 15, 2024 – Shelved as: under-200

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