Rainer Maria Rilke News

SAGITTARIUS : "It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything," said Sagittarian poet Rainer Maria Rilke.

BEAUTY is nothing but the beginning of terror' wrote Rainer Maria Rilke, and they are the words that Michael Cunningham chooses to place at the very beginning of his latest novel, By Nightfall .

Rainer Maria Rilke has always commanded a devoted following among connoisseurs of fine literature but he is also widely read.

Pain, writes Rainer Maria Rilke, "tolerates no interpretation.A Nature is completely unaware that it causes us painand because nature does not take our consciousness into consideration, it becomes our task not to dissolve pain into our consciousness.A It appears that one has to let pain burn itself out wherever it happens, without trying to ... (more)