He has also translated works by Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Buber, and Sigmund Freud. He is University Professor at New York University and has translated Rilke’s Letters on Life and The Dark Interval and edited other books by and about Rilke. Ulrich Baer is a graduate of Harvard and Yale and has been awarded Guggenheim, Getty, and von Humdoldt fellowships. His Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus count among the great achievements in world literature. Rilke’s writings have deeply influenced countless readers, including major writers, the world over. While based in Paris, he traveled broadly until finally settling in Switzerland. It visited Rilke two centuries ago and its visiting millions tonight and. Do not write love poems, at least at first they present the greatest challenge. Pretend you are the very first man and then write what you see and experience, what you love and lose. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), born in Prague into a German-speaking family, is widely recognized as one of the world’s great poets. When Im in the funk- this book, Letters to a Young Poet- is a safe place for. Your life, in even the most mundane and least significant hour, must become a sign, a testimony to this urge. Countless readers have found inspiration, wisdom, and guidance in these deeply personal letters now famous the world over. In this slim collection of ten letters, written to an aspiring poet in the early 1900s, Rilke speaks with his unique insistence about living your true, authentic life.
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