“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)
“Young people -it is obvious -cannot achieve such a relationship, but they can, if they understand their life properly, grow up slowly to such happiness and prepare themselves for it. They must not forget, when they love, that they are beginners, bunglers of life, apprentices in love- must learn love, and that like all learning wants peace, patience, and composure.”
On young couples who have not yet matured enough to recognize and respect each other's solitude
Letter Seven (14 May 1904)
Letters to a Young Poet (1934)
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