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The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus A Dual Language Edition (Vintage International)

Rainer Maria Rilke

Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke’s two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century’s most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation and spiritual quest. His poems of ecstat...

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On Being with Krista Tippett

The interviewee discussed Rilke's *Duino Elegies*, mentioning its beauty and profound exploration of human experience. He noted that it speaks to many who are not receptive to explicitly religious texts.

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It communicates something about to people to a lot of people who don't feel open to quote unquote religious texts or spiritual texts. It communicates something of the vastness of the world of the dept...

— Episode: [Unedited] Stephen Mitchell with Krista...

Episode: [Unedited] Stephen Mitchell with Krista Tippett

The interviewee discussed Rilke's *Duino Elegies*, mentioning its beauty and profound exploration of human experience. He noted that it speaks to many who are not receptive to explicitly religious texts.

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It communicates something about to people to a lot of people who don't feel open to quote unquote religious texts or spiritual texts. It communicates something of the vastness of the world of the depth of experience and realka himself was not a very clear person but was had a profound connection with something. Something else let's say so anybody reading the dueneo energies or the son as to or if he is especially I think is in touch with. A larger sense of human possibilities at the very least and I think that's why so many people who wouldn't open. The bug of a guita or even the doubt it can have found something more through realka's poems.

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