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Letters on life : new prose translations / Rainer Maria Rilke ; edited and translated by Ulrich Baer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French, German Series: Modern Library classicsPublication details: New York : Modern Library, 2006.Edition: Modern Library pbk. edDescription: lii, 215 p. ; 19 cmISBN:
  • 9780812969023
  • 0812969022
Uniform titles:
  • Correspondence. Selections. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 831/.912 22
LOC classification:
  • PT2635.I65 Z48 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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