Not the least interesting phenomenon of the last four years has been the growing influence of Rilke upon English poetry: indeed, Rilke is probably more read and more highly esteemed by English and ...

Originally published on May 13, 2021. In his letters and poetry, Austrian writer Rainer Maria Rilke urged us to "love the questions" instead of searching for answers, and to "sing out" with pain ...

I had slipped the slim paperback, together with Rilke’s “Selected Poetry” and a journal (whose pages would remain mostly blank), into the duffel bag that I’d packed for a summer spent ...

A key interchange in the transition from angels to radios is the visionary poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. As an ambitious young poet, Rilke was chastised by his elder, Stefan George: “You’ve ...

Rilke’s lifelong nostalgia for the changeless, which the relativist philosophy that supplanted his earlier Christian belief would deny, speaks—or better, sings—over and over in his poetry ...

One has to wonder about Rilke’s last poem, “Komm du,” in much the same way. This was found as the last entry in his last notebook. It is accordingly unclear whether Rilke considered the poem to be a ...

I would like to reverse the lens this time to think about what it takes to make poetry. That is, I’d like the great Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke to say it for me: “For the sake of a single ...

It’s hard to resist connecting Rilke’s poem about a headless torso to the ones that abounded on the sculptor’s estate. Rodin had a penchant for antiquities. A picture from the archives of ...

ECSTASY: Poems, by Alex Dimitrov In his seminal “Letters to a Young Poet,” Rainer Maria Rilke encourages his long-distance apprentice to be as patient as possible with everything unsolved in ...