Rainer Maria Rilke was a giant of twentieth-century writing who is quickly becoming a visionary voice for our own time, captivating readers not only with his brilliance but also the way he boldly addresses the “deepest things.” Speaking through his own contradictions and ambivalences, he gives readers a profound understanding of the complex beauty of the human existence.
In her new book, In The Company of Rilke (Tarcher/Penguin, on sale Nov 10), bestselling author and spiritual leader, Stephanie Dowrick, invites the reader into the transcendent and piercingly beautiful world of the much-loved poet, and reveals how we can connect with our inner life through his poetry.
My whole effort for years might be described as an effort to fathom my own design, to explore my own channels, to discover my own ways…
I have at last discovered my own America, I believe I have found my language, I think I know my way.
And I shall wreak out my vision of this life, this way, this world and this America, to the top of my bent, to the height of my ability, but with unswerving devotion, integrity and purity of purpose that shall not be menaced, altered or weakened by anyone.
Chris Connelly was born in Edinburgh in 1964 and has spent most of his life writing and playing music in various guises. He has had two books published previously: the first, Confessions of the Highest Bidder, of poetry; the second, Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible and Fried: My Life as a Revolting Cock, a memoir. He lives in Chicago with his wife and two children. Ed Royal is his first novel.
EINSTEIN: There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe – the world as a unity dependent on humanity, and the world as reality independent of the human factor.
TAGORE: When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty.
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.”
~ Rumi
Rainer Maria Rilke was a giant of twentieth-century writing who is quickly becoming a visionary voice for our own time, captivating readers not only with his brilliance but also the way he boldly addresses the “deepest things.” Speaking through his own contradictions and ambivalences, he gives readers a profound understanding of the complex beauty of the human existence.
