Quote of the Day by Rainer Maria Rilke says ‘Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, ...

The first comprehensive translation of Rilke’s poetry appears in America after interest in Rilke’s work, on the Continent and in England, has reached a high point. This interest has passed beyond the ...

Signature of Auguste Rodin on “The Thinker” (photo by Daniel Schwen, via Wikimedia Commons) It might seem strange to open this review with Auguste Rodin‘s signature on his sculpture “The Thinker.” But ...

When John Berryman wrote in his third Dream Song that 'Rilke was a jerk', a lot of readers of Rainer Maria Rilke in translation were probably relieved. The Pseuds' Corner sonorities of Rilke we could ...

Ronda, Spain(Forest Woodward/ Getty Images) In late 1912, German poet Rainer Maria Rilke had a titanic case of writer’s block. Unable to find poetic inspiration, he left his home in Paris and ...

SONNETS TO ORPHEUS. By Rainer Maria Rilke. Bilingual Edition. Translated by Edward Snow. North Point Press, 122 pp. $22. Edward Snow, a professor of English at Rice University and a member of the ...

Rainer Maria Rilke and our columnist, Ulrike Almut Sandig, have both translated poetry from various languages into German. Sandig now takes it to the next level by “transadapting” two of Rilke’s ...

Empathy—the idea, the thing itself—whirls through Rachel Corbett’s elegant new study of Auguste Rodin and Rainer Maria Rilke like a wind. After all, the title of book, You Must Change Your Life, which ...