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Just thought id comment on your post as i thought you might be interested that ive released an album called widening circles. That is a dangerous business, putting your own words into the mouth of a great poet. Rilke s book of hours shares with the reader a new kind of intimacy with god, or the divinea reciprocal relationship between the divine and the ordinary in. Love poems to god by rainer maria rilke 5,089 ratings, 4. These fresh translations rendered by joanna macy, a mystic and spiritual teacher, and anita barrows, a skilled poet, capture rilkes spirit as no. Reviews of the rilke s book of hours to date about the ebook weve got rilke s book of hours responses end users never have still left his or her report on the game, or otherwise read it still. Rilke influenced generations of writers with his letters to a young poet, and now rilkes book of hours tells us that our role in the world is to love it and thereby love god into being. The project gutenberg ebook of poems, by rainer maria rilke. The poems document rilkes tour of russia with lou andreassalome, his hasty marriage and fathering of a child in worpswede, and his turn toward.
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