19-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Want to find better solutions? Learn to embrace questions.
What do I do when I don't know what's next? How do I move forward when I feel stuck?
These were the queries at the heart of Franz Kappus's letters. It was 1903 when Kappus, a 19-year-old aspiring poet, began writing to the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke and asking for advice about how to live his life. Like many 19-year olds, he had a lot of questions — about love, work, art, relationships.