The Book of Images
by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Book of Images
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Read in January, 2007
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I've been "reading" this for a while. Basically whenever I'm in need of some good poetry I pick it up.
I'm torn when I read works in translation because do I love the poet or the translator? I've read other works by Rilke (ie other translations) and have really enjoyed them, so definitely giving my props to Rilke. He offers up beautiful imagery like: "I want to become like one of those / who drive through the night with wild horses / with torches, which like unloosened hair / bl...more
I'm torn when I read works in translation because do I love the poet or the translator? I've read other works by Rilke (ie other translations) and have really enjoyed them, so definitely giving my props to Rilke. He offers up beautiful imagery like: "I want to become like one of those / who drive through the night with wild horses / with torches, which like unloosened hair / bl...more
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The first Rilke collection I ever read. Some of the poems will be with me for life. Some have faded. These poems are like masterful postcards of stained glass, whose color you learn to appreciate with time, as it becomes nuanced and fainter in places. When the light comes through these panels, though, it shines with an unmatched vibrancy on an unexpected host. Those moments make it worth reading this collection again and again.
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If idolatry was okay, I would probably worship Rilke. I am utterly in love with him. His poetry manages to be beautiful in abstractions. "Autumn Day" is one of my favorite poems.
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Lovely poetry, and very readable. Enough narration to just go on reading, but equally dense enough to stop anywhere and start thinking.
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"We are all falling. This hand is falling. And look at the others:it is all of them."
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Read in January, 2001
I don't read poetry. This book of poetry is excellent.
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