To reread it not so long ago Letters to a Young Poet, I often think back to this little book to be one of those (few) works in which an ethic for life - an ethic for all aspects of a full human life - is contained in a few pages sensitive, intelligent, bright.
on love and women, for example, Rilke's views are a striking modernity:
[love] is for the individual, an extraordinary chance to mature, to become in self, to become a world, a world in itself for someone else is for him a great and immodest ambition, something that distinguishes him and calls out to sea. [...] One day, the girl will come and the woman, whose name will no longer mean only that which is opposed to the masculine, but something that is by itself, something that does not induce any thinking complementarity and no limit, but only one life and existence: the human female.
To think well there, there is little that The Prophet by Khalil Gibran which seems equivalent to the simplicity of expression and the brightness of his remarks.
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