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lilianangelicae_'s review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
3.75
bigbookbabe's review against another edition
4.5
āSo, my dear sir, love solitude, and endure the pain it brings with lovely sounds of lament.ā
just extraordinary beautiful ruminations on love and being a creative, which i truly appreciated!
just extraordinary beautiful ruminations on love and being a creative, which i truly appreciated!
hannahb123's review against another edition
5.0
sure ill give this a 5. this was such a romantic, poignant, philosophical read. i have many words to describe all my thoughts but cannot collate them into something cohesive. but i will say this, if you are a creative person - read this book. it's not even really a book, more a novella. rainer maria rilke was an austrian poet and novelist (irl... all the letters in this letters to a young poet were written and sent by the real rainer maria rilke) and young franz xaver kappus approached him with his poetry and asked him to critique it.
the letters that follow took me through rilke's thoughts on creativity, religion, love, childhood, sorrow, and becoming who you were always meant to be. this book is very short, but i made a lot of annotations which will not fit in this goodreads review. i will leave some thoughts that i hope i come back to. reading this book was really insightful and i always want to remember what i read.
"for it is not indolence alone which causes human relationships to repeat themselves, from case to case, with such unspeakable monotony and inconsequences, but fear of some new, unforseeable experience to which one believes oneself unequal"
"the future is motionless, my dear kappus, but we move in infinite space. How should it not be hard for us?"
"your innermost experience is worthy of being wholly loved, you must somehow work with it, and not waste too much time and courage justifying your attitude towards others."
"so, my dear sir, love solitude, and endure the pain it brings with lovely sounds of lament."
be lucky i have only picked four to put here. to be fair most of the annotations are long as fuck and I'm lazy and ceebs typing them here. something ironic/interesting/funny about this book is that rilke was writing all the time to kappus (whom we only ever see one of his poems) and kapuus collated and published this book which i think is the most remarkable thing he could have done.
the letters that follow took me through rilke's thoughts on creativity, religion, love, childhood, sorrow, and becoming who you were always meant to be. this book is very short, but i made a lot of annotations which will not fit in this goodreads review. i will leave some thoughts that i hope i come back to. reading this book was really insightful and i always want to remember what i read.
"for it is not indolence alone which causes human relationships to repeat themselves, from case to case, with such unspeakable monotony and inconsequences, but fear of some new, unforseeable experience to which one believes oneself unequal"
"the future is motionless, my dear kappus, but we move in infinite space. How should it not be hard for us?"
"your innermost experience is worthy of being wholly loved, you must somehow work with it, and not waste too much time and courage justifying your attitude towards others."
"so, my dear sir, love solitude, and endure the pain it brings with lovely sounds of lament."
be lucky i have only picked four to put here. to be fair most of the annotations are long as fuck and I'm lazy and ceebs typing them here. something ironic/interesting/funny about this book is that rilke was writing all the time to kappus (whom we only ever see one of his poems) and kapuus collated and published this book which i think is the most remarkable thing he could have done.
hannahb7's review against another edition
5.0
sure ill give this a 5. this was such a romantic, poignant, philosophical read. i have many words to describe all my thoughts but cannot collate them into something cohesive. but i will say this, if you are a creative person - read this book. it's not even really a book, more a novella. rainer maria rilke was an austrian poet and novelist (irl... all the letters in this letters to a young poet were written and sent by the real rainer maria rilke) and young franz xaver kappus approached him with his poetry and asked him to critique it.
the letters that follow took me through rilke's thoughts on creativity, religion, love, childhood, sorrow, and becoming who you were always meant to be. this book is very short, but i made a lot of annotations which will not fit in this goodreads review. i will leave some thoughts that i hope i come back to. reading this book was really insightful and i always want to remember what i read.
"for it is not indolence alone which causes human relationships to repeat themselves, from case to case, with such unspeakable monotony and inconsequences, but fear of some new, unforseeable experience to which one believes oneself unequal"
"the future is motionless, my dear kappus, but we move in infinite space. How should it not be hard for us?"
"your innermost experience is worthy of being wholly loved, you must somehow work with it, and not waste too much time and courage justifying your attitude towards others."
"so, my dear sir, love solitude, and endure the pain it brings with lovely sounds of lament."
be lucky i have only picked four to put here. to be fair most of the annotations are long as fuck and I'm lazy and ceebs typing them here. something ironic/interesting/funny about this book is that rilke was writing all the time to kappus (whom we only ever see one of his poems) and kapuus collated and published this book which i think is the most remarkable thing he could have done.
the letters that follow took me through rilke's thoughts on creativity, religion, love, childhood, sorrow, and becoming who you were always meant to be. this book is very short, but i made a lot of annotations which will not fit in this goodreads review. i will leave some thoughts that i hope i come back to. reading this book was really insightful and i always want to remember what i read.
"for it is not indolence alone which causes human relationships to repeat themselves, from case to case, with such unspeakable monotony and inconsequences, but fear of some new, unforseeable experience to which one believes oneself unequal"
"the future is motionless, my dear kappus, but we move in infinite space. How should it not be hard for us?"
"your innermost experience is worthy of being wholly loved, you must somehow work with it, and not waste too much time and courage justifying your attitude towards others."
"so, my dear sir, love solitude, and endure the pain it brings with lovely sounds of lament."
be lucky i have only picked four to put here. to be fair most of the annotations are long as fuck and I'm lazy and ceebs typing them here. something ironic/interesting/funny about this book is that rilke was writing all the time to kappus (whom we only ever see one of his poems) and kapuus collated and published this book which i think is the most remarkable thing he could have done.
avidolector's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
"Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down
a helpless thing that needs our help"
a helpless thing that needs our help"
blossom6810's review against another edition
Iām not going to rate this book, Iām conflicted on how I feel about it. Some parts were lyrical and made me feel personally connected to what he was saying. Some made me reconsider things, and learn. That being said, some parts felt unnecessary, and sometimes dramatic. Some parts I just felt were wrong, and maybe that comes down to personal philosophy but his way of doing things isnāt the only way to be a true artist. He is also severely critical of others art, and states his opinion on things as if they were fact. The book wasnāt exactly pretentious because that would be a misuse of the word, he knows his stuff, but it felt self righteous. I think maybe I just felt too far removed from it, or it just wasnāt the right time for me to read this. Perhaps I will try again in the future.
cschnee1329's review against another edition
5.0
This was a really beautiful work about internal growth and enjoying the pains and beauty of life. I noticed that different editions are translated differently and that greatly impacted how the message was received for me. My biggest gripe is that what is translated as āsolitudeā in one edition is translated as ālonelinessā in another. For me, the greatest takeaway from this book was the benefits of experiencing growth in solitude despite its discomfort. Translating it as ālonelinessā seems to takeaway the aspect of control. Essentially, if you find your edition uses the word ālonelinessā replace it with āsolitudeā mentally.