false <![CDATA[The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke]]> 46201 16 Stephen Mitchell offers what are perhaps the most masterful and intimate translations of Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry to date, infusing it with all the power, eloquence, rhythm and lightness of its original voice. Includes the Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus. 45343 1910 The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke total:1499|5:854|4:493|3:137|2:12|1:4| 1499 6678 1991 116 1 3 false false Sun Feb 10 19:57:47 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 17 02:19:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Sat Nov 10 07:25:32 -0800 2007 Sat Nov 10 07:25:32 -0800 2007 hierarchies? and even if one of them pressed me
suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed
in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure,
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Also, I think I've read all the poems and most of the extra stuff, but I'm not sure if I consider this as "read," yet. I think it's going to stay on the currently-reading shelf until I learn German and...more...]]> 0 1 false false Mon Jun 23 06:28:52 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 24 20:28:36 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 23 06:28:52 -0700 2008
Spanish Dancer

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I'm cheating with this review, because I'm currently only halfway through this volume, yet I know it's a five-star review. (EDIT: Finished it - everything rocked!) I can blow through a novel in a day, but I can only read a few pages ...more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 21:32:05 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 21:06:59 -0700 2008
Last time I read this, I did...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 14:01:57 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 14:03:47 -0700 2009 ongoing more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 1999 Wed Jun 11 19:31:07 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 19:35:20 -0700 2008 "If you are the dreamer, then I am the dream.
But when you want to wake, I am your wish."
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Nicht weiss ich, welche Tone dir lieb sind.
Nicht mehr versuch ich, dich, wenn das Kommenende wogt,
Zu erkennen. Alle die grossen
Bilder in mir, im Fernen erfahrene Landschaft,
Stadte und Turme und Brucken und un-
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When I read that and the second elegy, I seriously got goosebumps all over my body. And some of the poems really blew me away. To be honest, however, so much of it just flew over my head that I need to read it again to even fathom Rilk...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Tue Nov 13 09:16:15 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 13 09:23:47 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 03 09:03:51 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 09:07:05 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sun Mar 10 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Tue Feb 12 23:27:17 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 23:30:45 -0800 2008
Rilke is complex, his images interweave and play off each other. I believe it has something to do with the penchant for puns and hyphenated, conjuncted words that German is prone to.

"Archaic Torso Of Apollo" is ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 03 15:00:35 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 11 16:08:19 -0700 2007
Imaginary Career~
At first a childhood, limitless and free
of any goals. Ah sweet unconsciousness.
...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Nov 06 09:04:28 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 09:16:36 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Fri May 15 14:23:55 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 09:10:31 -0700 2009 Rilke delivers. These poems will sing you to sleep and with good dreams. I give it four stars instead of five only because I only like to read this before bed and even though it's amazing, it always puts me to sleep.


*MY EXPERIENCE*
I am fuzzy on when I started ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 19:21:13 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 19:22:24 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=46201