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II, 10 Book of Hours (Love Poems to God) by Rainer Maria Rilke
My favorite poem by Rilke.
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(These photos are of Letter One in Rainer Maria Rilke’s ‘Letters to a Young Poet’. The English version can be read at the link below, translated by A. S. Kline. https://poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/German/RilkeLetters.php#anchor_Toc58662116 'Letters to a Young Poet’ is a collection of 10 letters written by poet Ranier Maria Rilke to Franz Xaver Kappus. Kappus had been seeking advice, deciding between a career in poetry, or as an officer in the army. In this letter, Rilke advises Kappus to look into himself to find his calling as an artist, and that his life may still be “fine, and broad, and full of richness” even if he forgoes the artist’s path.)
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(These photos are of the ending section of Letter Four in Rainer Maria Rilke’s 'Letters to a Young Poet’. The English version can be read at the link below, translated by A. S. Kline.
https://poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/German /RilkeLetters.php#anchor_Toc58662119
In this letter, Rilke advises that by enduring and loving solitary, it can help Kappus to find his path that will eventually be a safe haven.)
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Rainer Maria Rilke, December 4, 1875 – December 29, 1926.
The Reader by Rainer Maria Rilke
Who knows him, this one, whose own face
sinks away out of its being into a second one,
that only the quick turning of whole pages
sometimes forcibly interrupts?
Even his own mother would be uncertain
if that were him, who, together with his shadow, was drenched with reading.
And we, hours to spare, what do we know, how much he fades away, until,
in fatigue, he stops: raising up everything
into himself which has happened in the book below,
with eyes, which, instead of taking, nudge up
against the full and finished world as they give:
like quiet children, who, playing alone,
suddenly experience that which is at hand;
and yet his features, ordered as they were,
remain now forever rearranged.
