The Quantum of Light

Letters to a Young Poet

by Rainer Maria Rilke

Penguin ClassicsISBN: 9780141192307Published: 1 January 1929

Ten letters Rainer Maria Rilke wrote between 1903 and 1908 to Franz Xaver Kappus, a young officer cadet who hoped to be a poet, on writing, solitude, love and patience.

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