(I once showed a psychic friend of mine a late photo of Rilke, and it took her three hours to recover from the glance. “You can see it in his eyes: the powerful intuition of the state of being that is called God, the huge, oppressive longing for it, and the desolation.
but the best laugh comes in Stephen Mitchell’s foreword: Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. “And yet how much more human is the dangerous insecurity which drives those prisoners in Poe’s stories to feel out the shapes of their horrible dungeons and not be strangers to the unspeakable terror of their cells.”Īlthough he immediately denies that this is in fact the human condition. He’s a fan of Poe, which can’t be a bad thing:
But he does make a good point about the potential for women’s lib to make things better (“even now, especially in the countries of Northern Europe, trustworthy signs”) and in general he doesn’t seem completely off his rocker à la Whitman for example. I cannot discuss your verses for any attempt at criticism would be foreign to me. I want to thank you for the great confidence you have placed in me. He’s also obsessed with solitude - in Rilke’s cosmology, every man, woman and dog is an island. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke Hardcover Shop Local See all formats & retailers Paris FebruDear Sir, Your letter arrived just a few days ago. A lot of this is Rilke pointing out how true poetic souls like him are just a hell of a lot more realke than ordinary folks (journalists and critics in particular).
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