A good Poet

[Peaceful]

Rainer Maria Rilke has very peaceful and nice poems.I propose it.

[Elizabeth]

Hey - I actually LOVED Letters to a Young Poet in college, with its advice about soul-searching and attending to one's own passion, respecting and living up to it - but as I've gotten older, it seems so navel-gazing, and I hate how irresponsible he was in the rest of his life - sacrificing his family on an altar to his won genius. But separating his personal life from his writing, I still enjoy some of his poetry.

Which Rilke poems do you particularly enjoy?

[Hburke727]

The Swan

[Erica]

i think he is a good poet for what i've read from that book, he knows what he's talking about, i've read the books 4 times already and i find some-thing new every-time i read it

[Lixi]

I have really got into his poetry but I LOVE this book.
He is always at peace with himself - as my favorite pianist Glenn Gould commented, it is not easy to achieve that. I think I will definitely think differently when I read it again later in my life. But at this stage, solitude is the sweet haven for my heart and mind :)
I rank this book with Man's Search for Meaning.

[Jan]

Lixi wrote: "I rank this book with Man's Search for Meaning. "

I agree, a very German soldier moral type of meaning. Being strong, resisting solitude, be a hero in the face of defeat. So masculine! :)