The Poet's Guide to Life: The Wisdom of Rilke

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The Poet's Guide to Life: The Wisdom of Rilke
- The Poet's Guide To Life: The Wisdom Of Rilke (Modern Library)
â€œYou have to live life to the limit, not according to each day but by plumbing its depth.â€
â€“RAINER MARIA RILKE

In this treasury of uncommon wisdom and spiritual insight, the best writings and personal philosophies of one of the twentieth centuryâ€™s greatest poets, Rainer Maria Rilke, are gleaned by Ulrich Baer from thousands of pages of never-before translated correspondence.

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 themeâ€“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 Rilkeâ€™s thoughts on how to live life in a meaningful way:

Life and Living: â€œHow good life is. How fair, how incorruptible, how impossible to deceive: not even by strength, not even by willpower, and not even by courage. How everything remains what it is and has only this choice: to come true, or to exaggerate and push too far.â€

Art: â€œThe work of art is adjustment, balance, reassurance. It can be neither gloomy nor full of rosy hopes, for its essence consists of justice.â€

Faith: â€œI personally feel a greater affinity to all those religions in which the middleman is less essential or almost entirely suppressed.â€

Love: â€œTo be loved means to be ablaze. To love is: to shine with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away; to love is to last.â€

Intimate, stylistically masterful, brilliantly translated, and brimming with the wonder and passion of Rilke, The Poetâ€™s Guide to Life is comparable to the best works of wisdom in all of literature and a perfect book for all occasions.
Country USA
Brand Modern Library
Manufacturer Modern Library
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780679642923
ReleaseDate 2005-03-22
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780679642923

Country	USA
Brand	Modern Library
Manufacturer	Modern Library
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780679642923
ReleaseDate	2005-03-22
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780679642923

The Poet's Guide to Life: The Wisdom of Rilke

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