Rilke in Paris by Rainer Maria Rilke

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke [Rainer Maria Rilke and Maurice Betz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781782274919
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Published: 2018-07-18T16:00:00+00:00

On 2 January 1909, in the rare euphoria of creation, Rilke allowed his enthusiasm to burst forth.

Isn’t it just this way? You comprehend that a man who is only strong enough for one thing, sometimes crudely and clumsily worried, might be preoccupied with this single task; especially at the moment where he is owed joys and progress as strange as those which procured me my current work these last weeks. I could cite you so many beautiful testimonies. It seems to me sometimes that I will die when it is finally achieved: all weight and all lightness are concentrated so powerfully in these pages, everything there is so definitive and yet at the same time so limitless in natural metamorphosis, that I have the feeling of continuing in this book, distant and sure, beyond all danger of death. I do not have it in my heart, you see: the power to live come what may, and the right to live only for this work, closed in on it, supplied from outside by a little kiosk, like a prisoner for whom all things, even the least, take on their true value…

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