I love writing. And maybe I’m in love with it. I’ve tried to avoid the activity before because the process feels too difficult and the rewards too slim, but I always return. Still, it never feels like an addiction. I never regret returning to it, and it’s not my weakness that returns to it. On…
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On Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet.
Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry is notoriously difficult to translate. For non-German speakers, Rilke’s writing in Letters to a Young Poet is the closest we can get to the poet. It doesn’t only bring us closer to his writing style, but also the man and the general nature of poetry and writing. In Letters to a…