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These fresh translations rendered by joanna macy, a mystic and spiritual teacher, and anita barrows, a skilled poet, capture rilkes spirit as no one has done. I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. Review these poems of spiritual yearning and discovery composed by the young rilke one hundred years ago feel very fresh and moving in the beautifully transparent, supple versions of anita barrows and joanna macy. Rilkes book of hours is the invigorating vision of spiritual practice for the secular world, and a work that seems remarkably prescient today, one hundred years after it was written. Although the book of hours is the work of rilkes youth, it contains the germ of his mature convictions. Rilkes book of hours is the invigorating vision of spiritual practice for the secular world, and a work that seems remarkably prescient today. 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. With its dreamy, melodic expression and neoromantic mood, it stands, along with the lay of the love and death of.
Rilkes book of hours quotes by rainer maria rilke goodreads. Rilkes 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 which god needs us as much as we need god. The poet was rainer maria rilke, and these love poems to god make up his book of hours. The poems in the book of hours, written in the persona of a cloistered russian monk, were part of rilkes search for a way to express what he felt god was, but in macys workshop she read rilke even more broadly. Written without the initial intention for publication, inspired by rilkes experience of italian renaissance religious art in tuscany. The poems, sacred and intimate and not intended for the public, came to him in a.
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