“Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.”

—  Rainer Maria Rilke, book Letters to a Young Poet

Letter Seven (14 May 1904)
Letters to a Young Poet (1934)

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Austrian poet and writer 1875–1926

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