Letters to a Young Poet

there were parts that i REALLY enjoyed...

i liked the idea of training your negative traits (doubting for instance) into your most powerful traits (criticism or awareness instead), i loved the talk of fate coming from within us rather than into us, i liked the short discussion of genders and how we area actually all human (who'da'thunk??), and above all i adored the idea that art should come from necessity, you should be creating art because without art you should feel like you are to die.

but the rest of it was all murky and foggy and honestly kind of lost on me. i mean these are letters, correspondence between strangers turning into friends so there are going to be ramblings and nonsensical parts ESPECIALLY since we only have one side of a conversation going on.

but i really felt that during a lot of the higher order thinking philosophy parts my eyes kinda glazed over.

was it the most accessible read?? absolutely not. in fact if it were like 30+ pages longer i would have dnf'ed because it was downright challenging at parts.

but the parts i am walking away with??? i will hold with me for the rest of my life. :,)