Great poetry leads the reader to fundamental truths. Reading Rilke during the lockdown has led Chintan Girish Modi to be patient amidst discomfort I love the hours after midnight because everything at ...

*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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The writer, scholar and critic William Gass has described translation as an act of reading: 'reading of ...

"I have a new book out called Rilke on Death and Other Oddities. Rainer Maria Rilke was a German-language poet who lived from 1875 to 1926. I've been reading him for half a century." "My first book on ...

In February, 1903, a nineteen-year-old Austrian military cadet named Franz Xaver Kappus received a letter whose contents, he hoped, would teach him how to live. “The envelope,” he later wrote, “bore a ...

Rainer Maria Rilke's ‘Letters to a Young Poet’, a compiled collection of ten letters written by the Austrian veteran poet to Franz Xaver Kappus, is considered a handbook for all amateur poets. Among ...