Rainer Maria Rilke

Abstract

Song, as you explain it, is not passion, not striving for some end at last attained; song is Being. Easy for gods to fashion. But when shall we be? And when will he bend the earth and stars upon our being? Youth, it is not that you are in love; although the voice bursts your mouth open, you must find how to forget your rash song. That will go. It is another breath that sings the truth. A breath round nothing. A gust in the god. A wind.

The Poetics of Blank Spaces and Intervals in Selected Works of Elisabeth Rynell

“…Her recurring critique of civilization entails a number of anachronistic features or throwbacks to early modernism: because she ascribes language to a primeval sphere and to a state of pre-consciousness, many of her texts tie the use of language directly to concepts of femininity, corporeality and ethnicity. 8 By referring explicitly to the Finland-Swedish and Swedish early modernist poets Edith Södergran (1892-1923) and Harry Martinson (1904-1978 in Skrivandet sinne, she encourages criticism of postmodern (or postpostmodern) life and artistic conditions, expressing a quite skeptical attitude to technology, consumerism and rationality. Here the similarities to Lidman's or Harry Martinson's literary and political engagement are plainly evident.…”

Voloshuk V. The Peculiarities of Syntactic Struture in r. m. Rilke's Poetic Works and Their Preservation in Ukrainian Translations

“…Und sieh dir andre an: es ist in allen. Und doch ist Einer, welcher dieses Fallen unendlich sanft in seinen Händen hält [10].…”

“…Und breite mich aus und falle in mich hinein und werfe mich ab und bin ganz allein [10]. ширяю, метаюсь, кружляю над виром пучин, лечу увсебіч -і я зовсім один Бажан [12].…”

“…Наприклад у творі "Erinnerung" (Спогад) Рільке застосовує морфемний повтор з двох однокореневих дієслів: Und du wartest, erwartest das Eine, das dein Leben unendlich vermehrt [10]. А ти ждеш, дожидаєшся тайни: щось життя перемножить твоє.…”

Walter Benjamin'sBerliner Kindheit um 1900: Longing, Enchantment and the Material Subject

“…For 'materialism' here also means a deep spirituality, a desire, as Rilke has it, to make the material world invisible in us by means of investing ourselves in it, and it in us, in a way that expresses a sense of its magical, sacred quality. He explains this in a letter of 13 th November 1925 to his Polish translator, Witold von Hulewicz (Rilke 1963(Rilke [1923, 129):…”