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A Year with Rilke: November 2011
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A Year with Rilke: About the Images: The Artists Connected with Rilke
We will post images of paintings and sculptures by artists connected with Rilke in some way. We'll try to share the connections in this spac...
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A Year with Rilke: Three Sprigs of Heather
Clara Rilke Westhoff by Paula Modersohn-Becker Never has heather so touched and even moved me as when I found these three sprigs in your de...
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A Year with Rilke: Only Love Can Grasp Them
The Tree of Life, Soclet Frieze by Gustav Klimt Works of art belong immeasurably to themselves, and are accessible least of all to criticis...
a year with rilkeonly lovegrasp
https://yearwithrilke.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-choose-to-begin.html
A Year with Rilke: I Choose to Begin
At the Window. Autumn. by Leonid Pasternak I love all beginnings, despite their anxiousness and their uncertainty, which belong to every co...
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A Year with Rilke: Our Closest Friend
Leo Tolstoy, by Leonid Pasternak Our effort, I suggest, can be dedicated to this: to assume the unity of Life and Death and let it be progr...
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https://yearwithrilke.blogspot.com/2011/09/in-rome.html
A Year with Rilke: In Rome
Clara and Rainer Maria Rilke in Rome There is much beauty here, for great beauty is everywhere. Living waters flow endlessly through ancien...
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https://yearwithrilke.blogspot.com/2011/05/patience-is-all.html
A Year with Rilke: Patience Is All
A Wind-Beaten Tree, by Vincent van Gogh Do not measure in terms of time: one year or ten years means nothing. For the artist there is no co...
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A Year with Rilke: Not Poor
La Branche, by Marc Chagall We are not poor. We are just without riches, we who have no will, no world: marked with the marks of the late...
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https://yearwithrilke.blogspot.com/2011/08/unafraid-of-what-is-difficult.html
A Year with Rilke: Unafraid of What Is Difficult
Vase with Daisies, by Vincent van Gogh Don't be confused by the nature of solitude, when something inside you wants to break free of your ...
a year with rilkewhat isunafraiddifficult
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A Year with Rilke: Friends
The Quilting Bee, by Grandma Moses Friends can only be compared to dance and music. You cannot approach them intentionally, but only out o...
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A Year with Rilke: Playmates
painting by Marc Chagall There were a few of us, playmates in the scattered gardens of the city. Remember how we found each other and he...
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A Year with Rilke: Arriving at Rodin's Place in Meudon
Rilke and Auguste Rodin photographer unknown He has received me, but that means nothing until I tell you how. Thus: the way a beloved pl...
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A Year with Rilke: October 2011
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A Year with Rilke: Mount Fuji
Red Fuji southern wind clear sky by Katsushika Hokusai from the series 'Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji' Thirty-six times and a hundred tim...
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https://yearwithrilke.blogspot.com/2011/08/i-am-sometimes-like-tree.html
A Year with Rilke: I Am Sometimes Like a Tree
Churchyard at Tara, Ireland photo by Ruth So I am sometimes like a tree rustling over a gravesite and making real the dream of the one ...
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https://yearwithrilke.blogspot.com/2011/05/gods-true-cloak.html
A Year with Rilke: God's True Cloak
The Castle of Duino from the Rilke Path We must not portray you in king's robes, you drifting mist that brought forth the morning. From ...
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A Year with Rilke: The Ancient One
Tree Roots by Ivan Shishkin At the bottom, the ancient one, tangled root of all that has been, forgotten fountain left unseen. H...
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A Year with Rilke: September 2011
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A Year with Rilke: Elegy to Marina Tsvetayeva-Efrom (II)
Marina Tsvetayeva-Efrom Oh the losses in the universe, Marina, the perishing stars! We don't increase their number when we plunge. In the...
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https://yearwithrilke.blogspot.com/2011/11/not-caught-in-drama.html
A Year with Rilke: Not Caught in the Drama
Adam and Eve with the Forbidden Fruit by Marc Chagall I can still only think of God as the One who allows everything, the One who is not ca...
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A Year with Rilke: Sky Within Us
Aleka and Zemphira by Moonlight by Marc Chagall Oh, not to be separated, shut off from the starry dimensions by so thin a wall. What is...
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https://yearwithrilke.blogspot.com/2011/12/life-being-lived.html
A Year with Rilke: The Life Being Lived
The Dance by Marc Chagall And yet, though we strain against the deadening grip of daily necessity, I sense there is this mystery: All ...
a year with rilkethe lifelived
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A Year with Rilke: Lament
Brooklyn Bridge by Edward Steichen How far from us everything is, and long gone. I think the star whose light reaches me now has been d...
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A Year with Rilke: A Circle
Road at Saint-Remy with a Female Figure by Vincent van Gogh Surely your heart travels not only from the ghostly to the holy, but it makes a...
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A Year with Rilke: The Shelter of Your Heart
The House with the Green Eye by Marc Chagall Who knows: eyes may be watching us from all sides. Ah, only stumbling toward you am I no ...
a year with rilkethe shelterheart
https://yearwithrilke.blogspot.com/2011/08/for-sake-of-whole.html
A Year with Rilke: For the Sake of the Whole
Closeup of the Burghers of Calais by Auguste Rodin Are there relations of the heart that embrace what is most cruel for the sake of wholene...
a year with rilkefor thesakewhole
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A Year with Rilke: The Panther
Pine Trees and the Sea, by Leonid Pasternak His gaze, forever blocked by bars, is so exhausted it takes in nothing else. All that exists ...
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A Year with Rilke: Cities
Field of Poppies, by Vincent van Gogh Lord, the great cities are lost and rotting. Their time is running out. . . . The people there live...
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A Year with Rilke: The Island of the Sirens
Ulysses and the Sirens by John William Waterhouse When his hosts would ask him late in the evening to tell of his voyages and the perils t...
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A Year with Rilke: December 2010
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A Year with Rilke: August 2011
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A Year with Rilke: June 2011
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A Year with Rilke: Spectators
Two Poplars on a Hill by Vincent van Gogh And we: always and everywhere spectators, turned not toward the Open but to the stuff of our l...
a year with rilkespectators
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A Year with Rilke: The Departure of the Prodigal Son
Sculpture by Auguste Rodin To go forth now from all the entanglement that is ours and yet not ours, that, like the water in an old we...
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A Year with Rilke: 2012
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A Year with Rilke: Drudgery
The Sower (study), by Vincent van Gogh I know that your profession is difficult and contrary to your nature. I cannot remove your distress;...
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A Year with Rilke: For the Sake of One Line of Poetry
Old Woman with a Ball of Yarn by Marc Chagall . . . And to think of all these things is still not enough. One must remember many nights of ...
a year with rilkefor theone line
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A Year with Rilke: Be Ahead of All Parting
On the Sofa, by Leonid Pasternak Be ahead of all parting, as if it had already happened, like winter, which even now is passing. For bene...
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A Year with Rilke: The Portal (II)
harpist in front of Chartres Cathedral by Ruth So much life can be seen here. Just as on a painted stage set the world can be seen; and j...
a year with rilkethe portalii
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A Year with Rilke: With our thanks
Rainer Maria Rilke It seems appropriate that we, Ruth and Lorenzo , feel both sadness and joy as we close out this year of Rilke readi...
a year with rilkethanks
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A Year with Rilke: Night
The Street Performers in the Night by Marc Chagall Night. You with your depth-dissolving face pressed against my face. You, counterbalanc...
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