letters to a young poet

"You gave me much joy, my dear sir, with your Easter letter;
for it said many good things about yourself,
and the way you spoke of Jacobsen's great and beloved art showed me that I had not erred in guiding your life and its many questions to this source of plenty.

Now Niels Lyhne will open up before you, a book of glories and of the deeps;
the oftener one reads it-
there seems to be everything in it
from life's very faintest fragrance
to the full big taste of its heaviest fruits."




Rainer M Rilke.