Rainer Maria Rilke
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| Title | : | Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God |
| Author | : | Rainer Maria Rilke |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 166 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 1997 by Riverhead Books (first published 1899) |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Spirituality. Religion. Classics. European Literature. German Literature |
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At the beginning of the 20th century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he had immersed himself in the spirituality he discovered there. He "received" a series of poems about which he did not speak for a long time - he considered them sacred, and different from anything else he ever had done and ever would do again. This poet saw the coming darkness of the century, and saw the struggle we would have in our relationship to the divine. The poet was Rainer Maria Rilke, and these love poems to God make up his Book of Hours.Describe Books Conducive To Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
| Original Title: | Das Stunden-Buch |
| ISBN: | 1573225851 (ISBN13: 9781573225854) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.43 From 5068 Users | 349 ReviewsEvaluation Out Of Books Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
I put this on my Christmas wish list, and then promptly ordered it for myself Christmas afternoon when I did not find it under the tree! :D Over the last month, I have been savoring this incredible book.In "Book of Hours: Love Poems to God," Rilke explores our relationship to the divine in exquisite, must-read poetry. As I read, many of the poems resonated with me on a cellular level. Some feel sacred as scripture. This book is such a treasure.The translators have been thorough and reallyHow surely gravitys law,strong as an ocean current,takes hold of even the strongest thingand pulls it toward the heart of the world.Each thing-each stone, blossom, child is held in place.Only we, in our arrogance,push out beyond what we belong tofor some empty freedom.If we surrenderedto earths intelligencewe could rise up rooted, like trees.Instead we entangle ourselvesin knots of our own makingand struggle, lonely and confused.So, like children, we begin againto learn from the things,because
Whoa. Whoa.I read a checked-out library copy of this book, but about halfway through I realized that I was going to need to own it. Still working on that. But thanks to Rilke, I finally understand the point of poetry. Don't get me wrong - I've appreciated poetry before, like the imagery it evoked or the cadence it gave or whatever. But THIS. Well, just refer to the first two words of the review. I found this stuff profound. In almost every poem I found a stanza or thought that would just stop me
This book was savored, digested a few poems at a time last summer, while on a 6-week bicycling tour of the western US. One of the trip's many purposes was to unplug from the pace of city living, to better reassess my own path and priorities. The bicycle and this book were both vehicles for that practice. Writing over one hundred years ago, Rilke's poems describe and promote a reciprocal relationship with the Divine. They are full of possibilities and challenges, making the book an ideal
First read 2006There is very little pre-modern poetry that I am able to read myself, (though I can often appreciate it being recited) and I am not sure whether it's Rilke's genius or Babette Deutsch's musical, mainly free verse translation that makes these poems so beautiful, so perfectly clear and direct, like a mountain spring rolling over your toes, like a smooth cool pebble dropped into your hand.As an atheist I have to interrogate myself and work hard for a meaningful interpretation when I
I found this copy of the Book of Hours on a giveaway shelf several months ago, and I believe it's the best free book that has ever come to me. I would even say it's destiny that let me find this collection of amazing poems and reflections on God.I'm not much interested in poetry. I often find it either gimmicky (bound by certain rules that make it seem artificial to me) or impenetrable (re: almost any poem that appears in the New Yorker). But Rilke's poems knocked me off my chair again and again
This is one of those works that bears a seed of eternity within it. I keep coming back to these poems again and again and each time I am moved beyond myself. my perspective on what it means to relate to God and the world we live in widens over and again.
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