A review by cayleigh
Duino Elegies: A New and Complete Translation by Rainer Maria Rilke

Picked this up because Letters to a Young Poet is one of those rare books that genuinely changed my life, so I figured Rilke's poetry had to be pretty decent as well. My favourite lyrical poem was "You, neighbour God" and here are some of my favourite lines from the elegies: 

“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.” 

“We don’t love like the flowers, with just
the force of a single year; when we love,
ancient sap is rising.”

Looking forward to reading more of Rilke.