{"id":1922,"date":"2017-04-04T14:36:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T18:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2017-04-04T14:36:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T18:36:47","slug":"the-luminous-words-of-rilke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/the-luminous-words-of-rilke\/","title":{"rendered":"The Luminous Words of Rilke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paracletepress.com\/Products\/6414\/prayers-of-a-young-poet.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1923 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rilke.jpg\" alt=\"Rilke\" width=\"304\" height=\"447\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMore than a century has passed since Rainer Maria Rilke wrote the\u00a0poems in our volume, <em>Prayers of a Young Poet<\/em>.\u00a0Rilke&#8217;s poetry chronicles a search for the divine:\u00a0in the ordinary details of the everyday and the mystery of our inner life, and the courage to embrace whatever comes \u2013 whether darkness or light, despair or delight. With a distinctive blend of lyric vitality and spiritual authenticity, Rilke&#8217;s poems have found their way into the heart of readers today.<\/p>\n<p>In celebration of National Poetry Month, we invite you to read an excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paracletepress.com\/Products\/6414\/prayers-of-a-young-poet.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Prayers of a Young Poet<\/a>, translated by Mark S. Burrows.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nahYu_skpiE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>We grasp You only in what we do,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> illuminate You only with\u00a0our hands;<\/em><br \/>\n<em> our every sense is but a guest here,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> yearning to reach beyond the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Every sense is conceived;<\/em><br \/>\n<em> one feels its elegant hem,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> and knows someone spun it \u2014<\/em><br \/>\n<em> but heaven surrenders itself<\/em><br \/>\n<em> because it cannot choose.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I don&#8217;t want to know where You are;<\/em><br \/>\n<em> speak to me from everyplace.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Your willing evangelist distorts<\/em><br \/>\n<em> everything, and in his forgetting<\/em><br \/>\n<em> neglects to look for the resonance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But I&#8217;m always approaching You<\/em><br \/>\n<em> with all my coming;<\/em><br \/>\n<em> yet who am I and who are You<\/em><br \/>\n<em> when neither of us understands the other?<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a century has passed since Rainer Maria Rilke wrote the\u00a0poems in our volume, Prayers of a Young Poet.\u00a0Rilke&#8217;s poetry chronicles a search for the divine:\u00a0in the ordinary details of the everyday and the mystery of our inner life, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/the-luminous-words-of-rilke\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paraclete-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}