Rilke's Three Letters

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Those 3 letters is about a writer who gives his opinion about his writing, because his an amateur, who start feeling frustrated because he cannot find an editor willing to accept his work, in the first letter the writer give the young one advice to stop writing thinking on what other has to say but to express his ideas. Another issues is that his versus are no good , however the writer encourage to try other themes because writing about love is no something that he is good about it.
The writer is telling this desperate writer to explore deep inside to make sure writing is his real passion. The best advised in this letter was when Rainer Maria Rilke said “to go into himself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows; at its

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