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The poet's guide to life : the wisdom of Rilke
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The poet's guide to life : the wisdom of Rilke

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke; Ulrich Baer
Publisher: New York : Modern Library, 2005.
Edition/Format:  Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Presents a selection of observations and reflections on the topics of illness and death, dreams and religion, language and art, love and happiness, work and ambition, and childhood and old age.
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Genre/Form: Correspondence
Translations into English
Named Person: Rainer Maria Rilke; Rainer Maria Rilke
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Rainer Maria Rilke; Ulrich Baer
ISBN: 0679642927 9780679642923
OCLC Number: 56103850
Notes: Excerpts in English translation from approximately 7,000 of Rilke's German and French letters.
Description: lii, 215 p. ; 20 cm.
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 the 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.
Other Titles: Correspondence.
Responsibility: translated and edited by Ulrich Baer.
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Presents a selection of observations and reflections on the topics of illness and death, dreams and religion, language and art, love and happiness, work and ambition, and childhood and old age.

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