May 7 in Book Recommendations
Letters to a Young Poet
Each letter(chapter) in this book is no longer than 10 pages. Some are only 2-3 pages. But I haven’t been able to bring myself to read past the third letter. I just keep rereading the first 3. I could read this book in a day, it’s only 70 pages. But the depth this guy describes life in seems so beyond my current capacity I don’t want to do his writing an injustice by not letting his words simmer. Here’s one quote that I highlighted in his third letter.
“Allow your judgements their own silent, undisturbed development, which, like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be forced or hastened. Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come to completion, entirely in itself, in the dark, in the unsayable, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one’s own understanding, and with deep humility and patience to wait for the hour when a new clarity is born”
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Letters to a Young Poet
