Goatboy's Reviews > Letters to a Young Poet

Another work I've been meaning to read for years and years only to finally get to it. And given much more context after reading about Rilke as a person in Zweig's autobiography.

I described it to a friend as "incredibly pithy and dense in thought yet simply said."

There are many thoughts and sentences here that ring incredibly deep and thoughtful, so full of gentle advice and human understanding, so obviously having been lived through by the author.

I read this in a few hours but can easily see coming back to it again and again.