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Article: Letter to a Young Poet.(Poem)
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- Poetry
- Article date:
- February 1, 2004
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Letter to a Young Poet
In the biographies of Rilke, you get the Feeling
you also get now and then in the poems
that here, surely, is a man among the archetypes of all men
you'd rather hang than have notice your daughter.
And yet, how not to admire the pure oceanic illogic
of his arguments, those preposterous
if irremediable verities. It can't be helped. They're true.
And there's no other word for him, for whom sadness is
a kind of foreplay, for whom seduction
is the by-product of the least practical art there is.
Those titanic skills in language, the knack lacked by
every other lung-driven swimmer through the waters
of lexicon, ...
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