![]() ![]() ![]() They were an inspiration to Marilyn Monroe, Jane Fonda, and the inventor of the programmable computer, who bought the book in 1929 Dustin Hoffman called it his bible Lady Gaga had a line from it tattooed on her arm. (Rilke had recently turned twenty-seven when he wrote his first letter.) They have been taken as a spiritual guide, a source of insight, inspiration, and encouragement for any young person struggling with loneliness and doubt, questions of his or her fate and of what interpersonal and sexual relationships might have the potential to be. ![]() They have been seen as a record of the great man’s own development, written to a “Young Poet” but also by a young poet going through serious personal and artistic crises of his own. Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet has spoken powerfully, and differently, to every generation of readers since they were first published in German in 1929. ![]()
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