Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. -Rainer Maria Rilke, from The First Elegy, of the Duino Elegies, 1912. January, 1912: the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, fraught with ...

The poems are composed of ten elegies Rilke started writing in 1912 while a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis (1855–1934) at Duino Castle, near Trieste on the Adriatic Sea. Rilke (1875–1926) ...