![]() Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. ![]() “And yet how much more human is the dangerous insecurity which drives those prisoners in Poe’s stories to feel out the shapes of their horrible dungeons and not be strangers to the unspeakable terror of their cells.”Īlthough he immediately denies that this is in fact the human condition. He’s a fan of Poe, which can’t be a bad thing: But he does make a good point about the potential for women’s lib to make things better (“even now, especially in the countries of Northern Europe, trustworthy signs”) and in general he doesn’t seem completely off his rocker à la Whitman for example. He’s also obsessed with solitude - in Rilke’s cosmology, every man, woman and dog is an island. A lot of this is Rilke pointing out how true poetic souls like him are just a hell of a lot more realke than ordinary folks (journalists and critics in particular). ![]()
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