Duineser Elegien : Ein metaphysisches Weltbild in zehn Skizzen: Elegische Suche nach Sinn des Lebens und Zusammenhang (Paperback)

from Arctic-Stranger

"Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?" So begins Rilke's cry to heaven, and he stays with this theme throughout the Elegies. Rilke understands more than most that the encroachment of the divine is a thing of beauty, but he also understand that beauty is indeed terrifyin...

from HadriantheBlind

Incredibly beautiful and illuminating. I already have some passages memorized and hope to learn more.

from wanderlustlover

Not a penultimate favorite, but this kind of poetry definitely sucks you deep inside the marrow of the bones of its message. It's a very flowing format and the words wrap around you slowly like ribbons to take into every sensation of it. I almost devoured the whole thing in one sitting.

from Arctic-Stranger

"Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?" So begins Rilke's cry to heaven, and he stays with this theme throughout the Elegies. Rilke understands more than most that the encroachment of the divine is a thing of beauty, but he also understand that beauty is indeed terrifyin...

from HadriantheBlind

Incredibly beautiful and illuminating. I already have some passages memorized and hope to learn more.