Cartas A Un Joven Poeta Rainer Maria Rilke -

For Rilke, love is two solitudes protecting each other. It is not about merging or losing yourself. It is about two people standing so firmly in their own truth that they can look across the distance between them and say, “I see you.”

Rilke’s most famous advice is also his most radical: “If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.” cartas a un joven poeta rainer maria rilke

Written between 1903 and 1908, these ten letters are not really about poetry. They are about how to live. For Rilke, love is two solitudes protecting each other