Goodreads Quote of the Day for Thursday

Created: 2014-12-04 14:16 Updated: 2014-12-04 14:16 Notebook: Famous Quotes

To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

As a young cadet at a military academy, Franz Xaver Kappus wrote a letter to poet Rainer Maria Rilke (born December 4, 1875), one of the school's former students, asking for advice. Kappus later gathered Rilke's correspondence in a book, Letters to a Young Poet.


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