The Poet's Guide to Life

Rainer Maria Rilke undoubtedly ranks among the greatest of 20th century poets. But Rilke was also a profound thinker who, in his vast correspondence and prose writings, brilliantly illuminated the human condition. Here for the first time in English are Rilke's most trenchant and valuable observation [...]
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Rainer Maria Rilke undoubtedly ranks among the greatest of 20th century poets. But Rilke was also a profound thinker who, in his vast correspondence and prose writings, brilliantly illuminated the human condition. Here for the first time in English are Rilke's most trenchant and valuable observations--on love and happiness, illness and death, dreams and religion, language and art, work and ambition, childhood and old age. This book magnificently expresses the poet's conception of a meaningful life: It is a luminous and relevant guide filled with insights and reflections readers will turn to again and again. "You have to live life to the limit, not according to each day but by plumbing its depth.... In a word: one ought to turn the most extreme possibility inside oneself into the measure for one's life. For our life is vast and can accommodate as much future as we are able to carry."