DEEP DIVE: Letters to a Young Poet, Part 2

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

ARTish Plunge

DEEP DIVE: Letters to a Young Poet, Part 2

August 04, 2021

Spirituality.   Love.   Impatience of the young.   Power of the female human being.

Twenty-seven-year-old  Austrian poet and novelist RAINER MARIA RILKE managed to tackle all of those weighty topics in his letters to a young aspiring artist in the early 1900s. Collected and published after his death, Letters to a Young Poet addresses all that we fear and question about the life as a creative. But as Rilke attests, the quieter we are, the closer we move towards our art. Fate emerges from within us.

If you missed the first episode of this two-part series, I encourage you to begin with Episode 22.

 Mentioned:

  • Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (read
  • The Poetry of Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke (read)  
  • Isn’t Love A Grand Old Thing, Billy Murrary and Ada Jones (1909), available through the Library of Congress (hear
  • Portrait of Rainer Maria Rilke, Paula Modersohn Becker (1909) (see)

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