Letters to a Young Poet (Penguin Little Black Classics)

What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now. This title features profound and lyrical letters the author wrote to a young friend with advise on writing love sex suffering and the nature of advice itself. <p>'What matters is to live everything. <i>Live</i> the questions for now.'<br><br>A hugely influential collection for writers and artists of all kinds, Rilke's profound and lyrical letters to a young friend advise on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself.<br><br>One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.</p>