Possibility of Being: A Selection of Poems

ISBN-13: 9780811206518 / Angielski / Miękka / 1977 / 127 str.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Possibility of Being is a selection of poems by one of the most moving and original writers of this century, Rainer Maria Rilke (1857-l926). The title (taken from one of the Sonnets to Orpheus, ''Ibis is the Creature") reflects the central concern of both Rilke's life and art: the achievement of "being, which this most spiritual yet least doctrinaire of modern German poets defined as "the experiencing of the completest possible inner intensity.'' "