Tag Archives: Rainer Maria Rilke

The Partner of Her Loneliness

By Robin Bates | Published: March 25, 2012

In “She Who Reconciles,” Rilke celebrates the gentle yet empowering guest.

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The Rest between Two Notes

By Robin Bates | Published: December 4, 2011

A Rilke poem captures the spirit of Advent when he describes his life as “the rest between two notes.”

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Read Blake, Stand Up to Your Boss

By Robin Bates | Published: November 30, 2011

Businessman David Whyte turns to poetry to hold on to his soul in the corporate world.

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And a woman said, “Tell us of Pain”

By Robin Bates | Published: October 6, 2009

Here’s a poem that deals directly with pain, from Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet.  I don’t entirely understand it but I’m intrigued by some of its claims: “And a woman spoke, saying, “Tell us of Pain.” And he said: Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of […]

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