The project gutenberg ebook of poems, by rainer maria rilke. Your knowledge can inspire average, make them reading a book. Just thought id comment on your post as i thought you might be interested that ive released an album called widening circles. Rilke influenced generations of writers with his letters to a young poet, and now rilkes book of hours tells us that our role in the world is to love it and thereby love god into being. In this desire to approach the nameless one, the young brother in the book of a monks life builds up about god parables, images and legends reminiscent of those of the 17th century angelus silesius, but sustained by a more pregnant language because exalted by a more. Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer no kindle device required.
These fresh translations rendered by joanna macy, a mystic and spiritual teacher, and anita barrows, a skilled poet, capture rilkes spirit as no one has done. Love poems to god, you could tells your family, friends along with soon about yours book. At the beginning of the 20th century, a young german poet re. This poet saw the coming darkness of the century, and saw the struggle we would have in our relationship to the divine. At the beginning of this century, a young german poet returned from a journey to russia, where he had immersed himself in the spirituality he. As one turns the pages of rilkes first small book of poems, published originally. I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. While visiting russia in his twenties, rainer maria rilke, one of the twentieth centurys greatest poets, was moved. Love poems to god, rilke explores our relationship to the divine in exquisite, mustread poetry. The book of hours glows with a mystic fervour to know god, to be near him. The poet was rainer maria rilke, and these love poems to god make up his book of hours. Love poems to god is the book that recommended to you to learn.
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