This week's emotional intelligence quote comes from a 1904 Rilke letter that argues against emotional suppression: sit with ...

Quote of the day: “Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer,” – Rainer Maria Rilke. Rainer Maria Rilke’s quote is one ...

In February, 1903, a nineteen-year-old Austrian military cadet named Franz Xaver Kappus received a letter whose contents, he hoped, would teach him how to live. “The envelope,” he later wrote, “bore a ...

Rainer Maria Rilke, Author, Angela Esterhammer, Translator University Press of New England $18.95 (151p) ISBN 978-0-87451-661-6 These two tales, here translated into English for the first time, reveal ...

In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke went to Paris to write a monograph about Auguste Rodin. Ten days into the trip, the young poet confessed that he had an ulterior motive for taking the assignment. “It is ...

How should one live? This existential question shook the young poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926). Amid dark days plagued by financial hardship and the departure of his poetic muse, Rilke desperately ...

As a lover of famous correspondence, especially extraordinary love letters, and of Rainer Maria Rilke, I was instantly enamored with Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters (public ...

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Quote of the day: “Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer,” – Rainer Maria Rilke. Rainer Maria Rilke’s quote is one ...