Rilke On Love And Other Difficulties: Translati... May 2026

Passages from Rilke's correspondence that explore love as a "high inducement to the individual to ripen" and "become world for himself".

Rilke famously argues that love is not about "merging" but is instead a "day labor" that requires two solitudes to "protect and touch and greet each other". Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translati...

Selections of Rilke’s later poems, known for being sensual, tough-minded, and occasionally explicitly sexual. Passages from Rilke's correspondence that explore love as

The volume is widely available at retailers such as Barnes & Noble , Bookshop.org , and City Lights Bookstore . known for being sensual

is a curated anthology of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry and prose, compiled and translated by John J. L. Mood .