Love your solitude and bear with sweet-sounding lamentation the suffering it causes you. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Love your solitude and bear with sweet-sounding lamentation the suffering it causes you.
In the original German
Lieben Sie Ihre Einsamkeit, und tragen Sie den Schmerz, den sie Ihnen verursacht mit schoklingender Klage.
Letters to a Young Poet · 1929
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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters to a Young Poet, translated by Charlie Louth. Penguin Classics, 2014.
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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Franz Kappus. 16 July 1903.
