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"You have to live life to the limit, not according to each day but by plumbing its depth." 'RAINER MARIA RILKE In this treasury of uncommon wisdom and spiritual insight, the best writings and personal philosophies of one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, Rainer Maria Rilke, are gleaned by Ulrich Baer from thousands of pages of never-before translated correspondence. The result is a profound vision of how the human drive to create and understand can guide us in every facet of life. Arranged by theme'from everyday existence with others to the exhilarations of love and the experience of loss, from dealing with adversity to the nature of inspiration, here are Rilke's thoughts on how to live life in a meaningful way: Life and Living: "How good life is. How fair, how incorruptible, how impossible to deceive: not even by strength, not even by willpower, and not even by courage. How everything remains what it is and has only this choice: to come true, or to exaggerate and push too far." Art: "The work of art is adjustment, balance, reassurance. It can be neither gloomy nor full of rosy hopes, for its essence consists of justice." Faith: "I personally feel a greater affinity to all

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Author

Rainer Maria Rilke; Ulrich Baer

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679642923

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Body Mind & Spirit, Self Help, Fiction

Rating

4.18 / 5 (167 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13