Letters on life : new prose translations /

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926.

Letters on life : new prose translations / Rainer Maria Rilke ; edited and translated by Ulrich Baer. - Modern Library pbk. ed. - New York : Modern Library, 2006. - lii, 215 p. ; 19 cm. - Modern Library classics .

Excerpts in English translation from approximately 7,000 of Rilke's German and French letters. Originally published: The poet's guide to life. 2005.

"Sources": p. [203]-215.

On life and living : you have to live life to the limit -- On being with others : to be a part, that is fulfillment for us -- On work : get up cheerfully on days you have to work -- On difficulty and adversity : the measure by which we may know our strength -- On childhood and education : this joy in daily discovery -- On nature : it knows nothing of us -- On solitude : the loneliest people above all contribute most to commonality -- On illness and recovery : pain tolerates no interpretation -- On loss, dying, and death : even time does not "console" ... it puts things in their place and creates order -- On language : that vast, humming, and swinging syntax -- On art : art presents itself as a way of life -- On faith : a direction of the heart -- On goodness and morality : nothing good, once it has come into existence, may be suppressed -- On love : there is no force in the world but love.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 --Correspondence.
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 --Translations into English.


Authors, German--20th century--Correspondence.

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