![]() ![]() I return to this set of 10 letters because they taught me the importance of structuring my life around that which I must do - the meaningful work that leads, ultimately, to fulfillment. It's the book I've picked up, on more than one occasion, during a conversation, and read aloud to friends. There's not really much there - but the copy of Rilke's Letters that gets a greatest-hits spot on my coffee table is also underlined, dog-eared and Post-It-noted. My copy of the book is small, barely breaking one hundred pages of double-spaced text on slim pages. I came across Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet as a 21-year-old college junior in a class on poetic form. It was as if they were age-old concerns, that I was following generations of people before me who had likewise wondered, "When it all comes down to it, and I am alone, is what I love enough?" ![]()
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