R. M. Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke – I mandorli in fiore / The almond trees in bloom

Charles Conder, The howe in spring, 1900 ca The almond trees in bloom: all we can accomplish here is to ever know ourselves in our earthly appearance.I endlessly marvel at you, blissful ones—at your demeanor, the way you bear your vanishing adornment with timeless purpose. Ah, to understand how to bloom: then would the heart be …

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Rainer Maria Rilke – Ancora e sempre, anche se conosciamo il paesaggio dell’amore / Again And Again, However We Know The Landscape Of Love

Manuel García y Rodríguez, A romantic moment on the river, 1911 Again and again, however we know the landscape of love and the little churchyard there, with its sorrowing names, and the frighteningly silent abyss into which the others fall: again and again the two of us walk out together under the ancient trees, lie …

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Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)

Rainer Maria Rilke was a Bohemian-Austrian poet. He is considered as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist writers due to his mystical, lyrical and existential themes and style. Duino Elegies (1923) and Sonnets to Orpheus (1922) are among his most famous works.