Letters on Life
New Prose Translations
Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke’s voluminous, never-before-translated correspondence, this volume offers the best writings and personal philosophy of one of the twentieth century’s greatest poets. The result is a profound vision of how the human drive to create and understand can guide us in every facet of life. Arranged by theme–from everyday existence with others to the exhilarations of love and the experience of loss, from dealing with adversity to the nature of inspiration–here are Rilke’s thoughts on how to infuse everyday life with beauty, wonder, and meaning.
Intimate, stylistically masterful, brilliantly translated and assembled, and brimming with the passion of Rilke, Letters on Life is a font of wisdom and a perfect book for all occasions.
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April 11, 2006Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) was one of the greatest lyric German-language poets. Born in Prague, he published his first book of poems, Leben und Lieber, at age 19. In 1897 he met Lou Andreas-Salomé, the talented and spirited daughter of a Russian army officer, who influenced him deeply. In 1902 he became a friend, and for a time the secretary, of Rodin, and it was during his 12-year Paris residence that Rilke enjoyed his greatest poetic activity. In 1919 he went to Switzerland where he spent the last years of his life. It was there that he wrote his last two works, Duino Elegies (1923) and Sonnets to Orpheus (1923).
The Book of Hours
Rainer Maria Rilke
Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
Duino Elegies
Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke; Damion Searls
The Dark Interval
Rainer Maria Rilke
Ahead of All Parting
Rainer Maria Rilke
Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus
Rainer Maria Rilke, Edited and Translated by Stephen Mitchell
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggs
Rainer Maria Rilke
The Poet's Guide to Life
Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters on Life
Rainer Maria Rilke
Sonnets To Orpheus
Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters To a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Emma
Jane Austen
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Dracula
Bram Stoker
The Betrothed
Alessandro Manzoni
The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
Ralph Ellison
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Cossacks
Leo Tolstoy
Middlemarch
George Eliot
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Voyage Out
Virginia Woolf
The Southern Woman
Elizabeth Spencer
The Squatter and the Don
Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
Hope
Pope Francis with Carlo Musso; translated by Richard Dixon
Reading Genesis
Marilynne Robinson
Sacred Nature
Karen Armstrong
Kiss the Red Stairs
Marsha Lederman
I Felt the End Before It Came
Daniel Allen Cox
Halal Sex
Sheima Benembarek; Foreword by Mona Eltahawy
Who By Fire
Matti Friedman
Don't Call It a Cult
Sarah Berman
The Lost Art of Scripture
Karen Armstrong
Talking to Strangers
Marianne Boucher
The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories
P. D. James With a foreword by Val McDermid
God Is in the Crowd
Tal Keinan
Bibi
Anshel Pfeffer
The Book of Joy
His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu with Douglas Abrams
Hatred
Michael Coren
The Crystal Code
Tamara Driessen
The Book of Joy Journal
His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu with Douglas Abrams
Opening Heaven's Door
Patricia Pearson
The Uncommon Touch
Tom Harpur
An Unquenchable Thirst
Mary Johnson
Beyond Religion
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Allah, Liberty & Love
Irshad Manji
Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
Karen Armstrong
Book of Mercy
Leonard Cohen
Being Generous
Lucinda Vardey and John Dalla Costa
Many Ways To Nirvana
Dalai Lama
The Flowering of the Soul
Lucinda Vardey
God In All Worlds
Lucinda Vardey
Journey of Awakening
Ram Dass
The Fasting Practice
John Mark Comer and Practicing the Way