Rilke for Dummies, part 2

[Mark Kohut]

8) later saluted 'the glories of ancient cultures' for thier human richness....
 
9) came to see the wordly poor as really rich if they lived open to the poorest Being, God himself...
 
10) The wordly poor lived in cities, which---David, Notebooks of Lurids Brigg vital here, Jethro sez---
were abominations to the spirit........
 
11) had this notion of 'a maturing personality'...[akin to evolving man and God, I guess]....
 
12) and which he came to apply to historical periods even later........
 
13) influenced by Rodin, he tried to get movement into his poems as Rodin did into his sculptures...That movement
was soul-capturing.........
 
14) in The Birth of Venus poem, Venus is literally born from the broad vulva of waves rimmed with the pubic hair
of foam....
 
15) Sick man when he wrote The Duino Elegies.....anti-Body [all them angels and idea(l) projections].......
Life must be SUFFERED.......that is what redeems it......'move from spiritual fear to reasoned appeasement'
sez Jethro............
 
This guy spoke to our writer when he was young.....
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