The book⌗

This will serve to store notes/insights/thoughts about Letters to a Young Poet

Quotes⌗

Xix- solitude is not merely a matter of being alone. It is a territory to be entered and occupied.

XX – when doubts arise, simply “school them”: “Instead of being demolishers they will be among your best workers”

Page 5 – things are not all as graspable and sayable as on the whole we are led to believe; most events are unsayable, occur in a space that no word has ever penetrated, and most unsayable of all are works of art

Page 13 – allow your verdict, their own quiet untroubled development, which like all progress must come from deep within and cannot be forced or accelerated

Page 14 – to be an artist means: not to calculate and count; to grow and ripen like a tree, which does not hurry the flow of sap and stands at ease in the spring gales without fearing that no summer may follow.

Page 22 – but your solitude, even in the midst of quite foreign circumstances, will be a hold and a home for you, and leading from it you will find all the paths you need

Page 32 - we know little but that we must hold fast to what is difficult is a certainty that will never forsake us. It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it.

Page 40 – just as for a long time people were deceived about the movement of the sun, so we are still deceived about the movement of what is to come. The future is fixed, dear Mr. Kappus, but we move around in infinite space.

Page 42: perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help.

Notes⌗

I liked it, some went over my head and some of it didn’t.