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Winter

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»Die Winterstürme durchdringen die Welt mit wütender Macht. Da sinkt auf schneeigen Schwingen die tannenduftende Nacht …«
Für Rainer Maria Rilke ist der Winter die Zeit des Fragens und der Erinnerung, aber auch eine Zeit der Besinnung und des Abschieds. In Gedichten, Briefen und Texten sinniert Rilke über die ruhende Natur und die Stille der Welt und wie kein anderer vermag er es, mit seinen Worten zu trösten und zu krä »Aber die Winter! Oh diese heimliche Einkehr der Erde.«

125 pages, Paperback

Published November 11, 2012

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Rainer Maria Rilke

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A mystic lyricism and precise imagery often marked verse of German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, whose collections profoundly influenced 20th-century German literature and include The Book of Hours (1905) and The Duino Elegies (1923).

People consider him of the greatest 20th century users of the language.

His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety — themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.

His two most famous sequences include the Sonnets to Orpheus , and his most famous prose works include the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge .

He also wrote more than four hundred poems in French, dedicated to the canton of Valais in Switzerland, his homeland of choice.

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December 8, 2025
‚so daß wir eine Weile hingerissen
das Leben spielen, nicht an Beifall denkend‘
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December 31, 2015
It is a great collection of poems and letters about winter or the end of life.
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