The Dark Interval by Rainer Maria Rilke

The Dark Interval by Rainer Maria Rilke

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke [Rilke, Rainer Maria]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780525509844
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2018-08-14T00:00:00+00:00


TO REINHOLD VON WALTER

The writer and translator Reinhold von Walter (1882–1965) maintained a correspondence with Rilke between 1907 and 1921.

JUNE 4, 1921

Le Prieuré, Etoy

Canton de Vaud, Suisse

[…]

Whether I have made any progress in the kind of confidence and trust in death of which you write to me will also only become clear within that great work [of the Duino Elegies (1922)]. You are correct: We have been tasked with nothing as unconditionally as learning on a daily basis how to die. But our knowledge of death is enriched not by the refusal of life. It is only the ripe fruit of the here and now, when seized and bitten into, that spreads its indescribable flavor in us.

[…]

Yours,

R. Maria



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