This week's emotional intelligence quote comes from a 1904 Rilke letter that argues against emotional suppression: sit with ...

The long poem, if we rightly exclude the dramatic, comes in three varieties: narrative, including epic; philosophical, including existential; and metaphysical, including religious. And, of course, in ...

*Originally published on May 13, 2021. In his letters and poetry, Austrian writer Rainer Maria Rilke urged us to "love the questions" instead of searching for answers, and to "sing out" with pain ...

The room was perhaps eight feet wide and ten feet long, with average-height ceilings. There were no doors, but a small window on the far wall, just above head height, peaked out. Everything solid was ...

Not the least interesting phenomenon of the last four years has been the growing influence of Rilke upon English poetry: indeed, Rilke is probably more read and more highly esteemed by English and ...

Rainer Maria Rilke, Author, Angela Esterhammer, Translator University Press of New England $18.95 (151p) ISBN 978-0-87451-661-6 These two tales, here translated into English for the first time, reveal ...

Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the most influential poets of literary modernism, was born 150 years ago. In this interview, literature professor Sandra Richter discusses what shaped him as a person and ...

In February, 1903, a nineteen-year-old Austrian military cadet named Franz Xaver Kappus received a letter whose contents, he hoped, would teach him how to live. “The envelope,” he later wrote, “bore a ...

Quote of the day by Rainer Maria Rilke: “Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” Few writers have captured the ...

In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke went to Paris to write a monograph about Auguste Rodin. Ten days into the trip, the young poet confessed that he had an ulterior motive for taking the assignment. “It is ...

The first comprehensive translation of Rilke’s poetry appears in America after interest in Rilke’s work, on the Continent and in England, has reached a high point. This interest has passed beyond the ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Poet Rainer Maria Rilke's 1904 letter to Franz Kappus offered profound advice on emotional ...