All feelings that concentrate you and lift you up are pure; only that feeling is impure which grasps just one side of your being and thus distorts you.
I want to talk to you again for a little while, dear Mr. Kappus, although there is almost nothing I can say that will help you, and I can hardly find one useful word.
It is the best poem of yours that you have let me read. And now I am giving you this copy because I know that it is important and full of new experience to rediscover a work of one's own in someone el
Rome
December 23, 1903
My dear Mr. Kappus,
I don't want you to be without a greeting from me when Christmas comes and when you, in the midst of the holiday, are bearing your solitude more hea
Rome October 29, 1903 Dear Sir, I received your letter of August 29 in Florence, and it has taken me this long two months to answer. Please forgive this tardiness, but I don't like to write letters wh
Worpswede, near Bremen July 16, 1903 About ten days ago I left Paris, tired and quite sick, and traveled to this great northern plain, whose vastness and silence and sky ought to make me well again. B
October 8, 2011 Dear Daddy, How's your life in America? Does everything go well? Mother and I miss you very much. Now, I am writing to tell you my entrance examination. I did very well in the exam and
Viareggio, near Pisa (Italy) April 23, 1903 You gave me much pleasure, dear Sir, with your Easter letter; for it brought much good news of you, and the way you spoke about Jacobsen's great and beloved
I was anxiously expecting your letter, and at last it has reached me. I am very glad to know that everyone at home is enjoying good health as usual. Things here are the same now as they were before. D
Letter Two Viareggio, near Pisa (Italy) April 5, 1903 You must pardon me, dear Sir, for waiting until today to gratefully remember your letter of February 24. I have been unwell all this time, not rea
It's a book you'll read countless times and each time will seem like the first time. Letters To A Young Poet are ten letters written to a young man about to enter the German military. His name was Fra
1 Mum Such is sons nature,I really do not know how to express my thanks to you.However,I can imagine,on the day 18 years ago,when you gave birth to me,what a complex feeling you had.In the past few ye