Duino Elegies
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π Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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<p><strong>A new translation of Rilke's classic elegiesβten mystical, radiant poems that bring together the beautiful and the sacred.</strong></p><p>Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies are one of the great literary masterpieces of the twentieth century. Begun in 1912 while the poet was a guest at Dui
<p>Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic<br>orders? and even if one of them pressed me<br>suddenly to his heart: I'd be consumed<br>in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing<br>but the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure,<br>and we stand in awe of it as it