“Irony: Do not let yourself be governed by it, especially not in unproductive moments. In productive ones try to make use of it as one more means of seizing life.”

Letter Two (5 April 1903)
Letters to a Young Poet (1934)

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Austrian poet and writer 1875–1926

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