Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) was a lyrical poet born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. A childhood troubled by a mother who raised him as a girl left him a life marked by melancholy and transient relationships.
However, his creative nature made him the leading Christian existentialist poet of Germany. Rilke meditated on life and death, time and eternity. His reputation rests on two monumental works, the Duino Elegies begun in 1910, and its companion piece, Sonnets to Orpheus. Both were published together in 1923.
as though far gardens withered in the skies;
they are falling with denying gestures.
And in the nights the heavy earth is falling
from all the stars down into loneliness.
We are all falling. This hand falls.
And look at others; it is in them all.
And yet there is One who holds this falling
endlessly gently in his hands.
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