From Notebooks and Personal Papers by Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. by David Need David Calcutt on memory and relationship as

on memory and relationship as well as life's large and small events

beautifully cadenced

The language of women’s poetry is internal

You sly devil

of absence and presence

From Notebooks and Personal Papers by Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. by David Need David Calcutt on memory and relationship asRainer Maria Rilke (1875 1926) is recognized as one of the great poets of 20th century European modernism. From 1921 1926, he lived in southern Switzerland, in a region called the Valais. Following the completion of the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, Rilke began to work in both French and German. A collection of French poems addressed to the landscape of Valais, Quatrains Valaisans, was published in 1926. In May of that same year, Rilke sent