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Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke, 1929

Ten letters on solitude, patience and living the questions.

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  1. What does "living the questions" mean to you?
  2. Rilke praises solitude. Is that advice harder to follow today?
  3. Which letter would you send to a younger version of yourself?

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