Prayers of a Young Poet Rilke Rainer MariaPaperback
Prayers of a Young Poet Rilke Rainer MariaPaperback This volume marks the first translation of these prayer-poems into English. His experience of the East shaped him profoundly. Originally written in…
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Prayers of a Young Poet Rilke Rainer MariaPaperback
This volume marks the first translation of these prayer-poems into English. His experience of the East shaped him profoundly. Originally written in 1899, Rilke wrote them upon returning to Germany from his first trip to Russia.
He intended these poems as icons of sorts, gestures that could illumine a way for seekers in the darkness. He found himself entranced by Orthodox churches and monasteries, above all by the icons that seemed to him like flames glowing in dark spaces. As Rilke here writes, "I love the dark hours of my being, for they deepen my