13/01  – 19/01 – Letters to a Young Poet, Rilke

13/01  – 19/01 – Letters to a Young Poet, Rilke

Practically a manifesto, and I underlined so much that it has become quite difficult to put down exactly what I feel about it. But I suppose trying to try, simply because it feels neccessary to do so, I suppose that’s the whole point, right? I mean it’s all just somehow stuff we always knew, deep down, somewhere in there. Rilke is somehow able to tempt that stuff out; and it’s just brilliantly put—with real venom and ice. With all the clarity of a crisp winter morning. And with a natural clarity: there is nothing digital about it. Rilke appears to have no artifice.