For Teachers of Poetry

[intertext]

This is one of those quote-within-a-quote-within-a-quote things that happen in blogs.

Litlove, in a post for the Sunday Salon is writing about reading Rilke's Duino Elegies.

This post on its own is worth reading, as she captures vividly the ecstacy of reading Rilke (and I have lidocafe to thank that I am now in the company of those who share that ecstacy

Comments

[tree_and_leaf]

Thank you for the link! I adore Rilke, and the whole post is very interesting. And the quote is dead right...

[asakiyume]

That's a marvelous quote. The pleasure William Glass must have had writing it--and the pleasure of the thought he's conveying--elicit an answering pleasure in the reader! I was laughing :-)

[wordweaverlynn]

Rilke is one of my favorites. I first heard of him through Roger Zelazny's lovely A Rose for Ecclesiastes, which I first read when I was 13 or so. That sent me haring off looking for the poems, and I fell in love.