![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was not until 1923 that the Duino Elegies emerged in their totality: a collection of ten intensely religious metaphysical poems informed by the anxieties, traumas, and fragmentations brought on by war and modern life. There, while standing atop a cliff overlooking the Adriatic Sea, Rilke claimed to hear the following line: “Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders?” That evening, the poet immediately set to work, turning these words into the opening lines of what would eventually become the Duino Elegies.įor the next decade, Rilke would engage in an arduous cycle of labor characterized by violent and sporadic bouts of literary creation. In 1912, Rainer Maria Rilke received an invitation from Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis-his longtime patron and closest friend-to stay at Duino Castle, a picturesque fortress just north of Trieste, Italy. The business within outgrows it, and limit itself differently. ![]() What ousts and replaces them is an act with no image.Īn act, under a crust that will split, as soon as The things of experience are falling away, since ![]()
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