(1875–1926)
Bohemian-Austrian poet“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Only press on: no feeling is final.”
more infosource: From The Book of Hours in The Poetry of Rilke, trans. and ed. by Edward Snow (New York: North Point Press, 2009), 33.
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category: advice, beauty, emotion, terror
medium: poetry
notes: from Mary Karr's Twitter feed
“Perhaps we are here in order to say: house, bridge, fountain, gate, pitcher, fruit-tree, window—”
more infosource: “The Ninth Elegy,” in Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus (New York: Vintage Books, 2009), 57.
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category: bridge, existence, fountain, fruit tree, gate, house, pitcher, window
medium: poetry
Rainer Maria Rilke