Letters on Life: New Prose Translations (Modern Library Classics)

Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke’s voluminous, never-before-translated correspondence, this volume offersthe best writings and personal philosophy of one of the twentieth century’s greatest poets. The result is a profound vision of how the human drive to create and understand can guide us in every facet of life. Arranged by theme–from everyday existence with others to the exhilarations of love and the experience of loss, from dealing with adversity to the nature of inspiration–here are Rilke’s thoughts on how to infuse everyday life with beauty, wonder, and meaning.
Intimate, stylistically masterful, brilliantly translated and assembled, and brimming with the passion of Rilke,Letters on Life is a font of wisdom and a perfect book for all occasions.

• The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation (Modern Library Classics)
• Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations
• Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
• The Poet's Guide to Life: The Wisdom of Rilke
• Letters to a Young Poet
• Letters to a Young Poet
• The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke: Bilingual Edition (English and German Edition)
• The Poetry of Rilke
• Letters to a Young Poet (Modern Library)
• The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Oxford World's Classics)