Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke. You ought to wait and gather sense and sweetness for a whole lifetime, and a long one if possible, and then, at the very end, you might perhaps be able to write ten good lines. I want my free will and want it accompanying the path which leads to action; and want during times that beg questions, where something is up, You must not understand this life. And once again the depth of my life rush onward, as if they were moving in wider channels now. …Poems amount to so little when you write them too early in your life. They are lost from her hair where they were … Here you will find a collection of famous poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, the list includes famous, short and funny poems of Rainer Maria Rilke listed alphabatically Rilke[1875-1926] was considered one of the greatest German lyric poets of his day. “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover) 53 Copy quote When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused. “I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God Then everyday will be like a party. Simply let every day be like a child who, passing by, receives many flowers from the wind. He created the 'object poem' as an attempt to describe with utmost clarity physical objects, the 'silence of their co I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough to truly consecrate the hour. At the time of his death in 1926 at the age of 51, Rilke had written over 14,000 letters which he considered to be as significant and worthy of publication as his poetry and prose. She doesn't collect or save them, that doesn't even occur to her. Rilke’s writing was unique in context that it helped expand the realm of poetry through new uses of syntax and imagery. Rainer Maria Rilke was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist who is widely known as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poet. I am much too small in this world, yet not small enough to be to you just object and thing, dark and smart. Throughout his life, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 -1926) wrote letters to close friends as well as individuals who had read his poetry but did not know him personally. R Remembrance And you wait, expecting that one thing that your life endlessly shall multiply; S Solemn Hour Whoever cries now somewhere in the world, without reason cries in the world, / cries about me.