About this title: This is a mini-anthology of Rilke's poetry and prose for both aficionados and newcomers. Combining great passion and gentle care, the poems on love presented here are often not only sensual but explicitly sexual as well. Others reflect perennial themes in Rilke's work - death and life, growth and transformation. The book concludes with Rilke's reflections on wisdom and openness to experience, on grasping the most difficult and turning what is alien into that which we can most trust.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780393310986ISBN:0393310981
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Minor shelf and edgewear. Text in English, German. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 144 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co
Date Published: 2004-08
ISBN-13:9780393310986ISBN:0393310981
Description: New in New jacket. New paperback book. 1993 reissue with different cover than shown. We ship 6 days a week, generally within 24 hours; single CDs and DVDs upgraded to 1st class! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780393310986ISBN:0393310981
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 1994-02-01
ISBN-13:9780393310986ISBN:0393310981
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Edition: Re-Issue
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co, New York / London
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780393310986ISBN:0393310981
Description: Very Good. Used paperback in very good condition, inscription on title page from previous owner Tony Wilson of ITV as well as some annotations by him on note pages. Translations and considerations of Rainer Maria Rilke by John J. L. Mood. Here is a mini-anthology of poetry and prose for both aficionados and those readers discovering Rilke for the first time. Mood has assembled a collection of Rilke's strongest work, presenting commentary along with the selections. read more
Description: Paperback Book is in Good condition: clean cover, clean page edges (no remainder mark). Some pen markings on title page. Ships with bar coded label for faster delivery! read more
Description: Like New. Book appears unread, but may have a publisher's mark or minor shelf wear. We are the Twin Cities' largest independent book store. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ww Norton & Co
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780393310986ISBN:0393310981
Description: New. A collection of the poetry and prose of Rainer Maria Rilke. Combining passion and gentle care, the poems on love are both sensual and explicitly sexual. Others reflect perennial themes in Rilke's work-death and life, growth and transformation. read more
"The letters and essays are beautiful, the poetry fragments less so.
Here's one:
Ah! but verses amount to so little when one writes them young. One ought to wait and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long and a long life, if possible, and then, quite at the end, one night perhaps be able to write ten lines that were good. For verses are not, as people imagine, simply feelings (those one has early enough)-they are experiences.
For the sake of a single verse, one must see many cities, men, and things. One must know the animals, one must feel how the birds fly and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning. One must be able to think back to roads in unknown regions, to unexpected meetings and to partings one had long seen coming; to days of childhood that are still unexplained, to parents whom one had to hurt when they brought one some joy and did not grasp it (it was a joy for someone else); to childhood illnesses that so strangely begin with such a number of profound and grave transformations, to days in rooms withdrawn and quiet and to mornings by the sea, to the sea itself, to seas, to nights of travel that rushed along on high and flew with all the stars-and it is not yet enough if one may think of all this. One must have memories of many nights of love, none of which was like the others, of the screams of women in labor, and of light, white, sleeping women in childbed, closing again. But one must also have been beside the dying, must have sat beside the dead in the room with the open window and the fitful noises. And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one must have the great patience to wait until they come again. For it is not yet the memories themselves. Not till they have turned to blood within us, to glance, and gesture, nameless, and no longer to be distinguished from ourselves-not till then can it happen that in a most rare hour the first word of a verse arises in their midst and goes forth from them."
"Rilke siempre sera uno de mis autores favoritos porque sabe como explicar, en palabras muy simples, las emocions y piensamientos de los humanos. En este libro Rilke tiene muchos teorías y piensamientos que razonan con la idea del amor y la muerte. La parte que mas me toco en el libro fue su teoria sobre la juventud y el amor...y su teoria que uno tiene que vivir su propio soledad. Que uno no debe buscar a otro humano que llene sue soledad, sino debe buscar a otro humano para que compartan sus soledades."
"My first intimate reading of Rilke. I read the section entitled "Princess Dragon" around the campfire on the Yampa to a captive audience. Insightful and beautiful writing."
"Some of the letter/essay material is gorgeous. But the editor has hacked up the poetry beyond recognition -- you literally get 3 lines at any given time. I'm making 5 stars for the first bit and 1 star for the second bit equal to four, just cause some of the first bit was so nice."
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