In Letters to a Young Poet, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke advises to "be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves," for gradually, "you will live into the answers." These words have long struck renowned preacher and activist William Sloane Coffin as a wise way to view a growing and evolving life. Thus inspired, Coffin, former university chaplain at Yale, imagined a similar volume of letters.
- ISBN10 066423996X
- ISBN13 9780664239961
- Publish Date 5 January 1931
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Westminster John Knox Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 120
- Language English