Where he feels more powerfully, you are a novice. You can’t impress him with glorious emotion in the universe
“Praise this world to the angel, not the unsayable one, It emerged from a prose sketch, “ Erinnerungen an Verhaeren,” whose title references the Belgian poet Verhaeren, with whom Rilke was friends. For this was larger than life – during these days and nights I have howled as I did that time in Duino – but, even after that struggle there, I didn’t know that such a storm out of mind and heart could come over a person! That one has endured it! That one has endured.” Rilke to Anton Kippenberg, Februrary 9, 1922.įrom February 12-15, 1922, in the midst of the work on the elegies and sonnets, Rilke also wrote Letter to a Young Poet. Dear friend, now I can breathe again and, calmly, go on to something manageable. “At last! The Elegies are here, they exist. “In just a few days, it was a nameless storm, a hurricane in the spirit (like that time at Duino), all that was fiber in me and fabric cracked – eating was not to be thought of, God knows who fed me.Īmen.” Rilke to Marie von Thurn und Taxis, February 11, 1922. New York: Vintage International, 2009, xviii.) by Stephen Mitchell in Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus. I think.” Rilke to his publisher Anton Kippenberg, February 9, 1922. I went out into the cold moonlight and stroked the little tower of Muzot as if it were a large animal – the ancient walls that granted this to me.
At the same time, between February 2 nd and 23 rd, he composed a cycle of 55 poems hardly less important than the elegies, Die Sonette an Orpheus. The Duino cycle will consist of ten elegies in total when it is finished. Within a few days, the poet wrote four new elegies and finished two others. Yale UP: 1947.)įrom the 7 th through the 26 th of February 1922, Rilke was seized with unparalleled creative elan. Herter Norton, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke Vol. “as I experience it, the Wallis seems to me not only one of the most glorious landscapes I have every seen, but also capaible in grandiose fashion of offering manifold equivalents and correspondences to the expression of our inner world The Valais landscape played its part in a fruitful period of completion for Rilke.
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