Visit the homepage for more information. Q: Tell me about Rilke and his poems about Mary. A: Rainer Maria Rilke (December 4, 1875 – December 29, 1926) is considered one of the German language's ...

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) has been called Germany’s greatest lyric poet since Goethe and Heine. In mirroring his milieu (which had seen the wave of unbelief in his nation reach and pass ...

Rainer Maria Rilke is arguably the most important modern German-language poet. His 'New Poems, Duino Elegies,' and 'Sonnets to Orpheus' are pillars of 20th-century poetry. Yet his earlier verse is ...

In his 1918 poem “Love Song,” acclaimed Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) uses an extended metaphor to depict love ...

Modern Library $19.95 (215p) ISBN 978-0-679-64292-3 While Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet has served as inspiration for generations of artists, it presents only his best-known letters.

For so it had never yet been. – Rainer Maria Rilke Translated from the German by M.D. Herter Norton Trapp, Jacob, ed. Modern Religious Poems: A Contemporary Anthology. New York: Harper and Row, 1964.

One of the most famous cycles of poems written in German in the twentieth century, and arguably one of the best known from any era, Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies (published in 1923) have remained ...

Kaur’s poems are usually short and use easy-to ... sweet and simple - as with this lovely little offering from Rainer Maria Rilke. Of Austrian-Bohemian origin, Rilke was famed for his rich ...

How should we create things? The word “should” isn’t quite right, since there’s no correct way to be creative; still, when ...

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The 19th century poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke observed, “Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” And the Rev. Martin Luther ...