Rilke On Love And Other Difficulties: Translati... -

Mood provides introductory essays and connecting commentary that links Rilke's spirituality to sensory experience.

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. The book concludes with reflections on turning "what

The book concludes with reflections on turning "what is most alien into that which we can most trust," focusing on death, growth, and the necessity of personal solitude. Major Themes L. Mood .

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

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