Thing-poem Quotes

It is clear enough that not every something can be elevated to the rank of a thing - otherwise every...

This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, tha...

The reason for the existence of the perfection conjured up in these fourteen lines is that it posses...

In his field, and with his means, Rilke carries out an operation that one could philosophically desc...

As we know, Rilke, under the influence of Auguste Rodin, whom he had assisted between 1905 and 1906 ...

In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of openin...

What the poet has to say to the torso of the supposed Apollo, however, is more than a note on an exc...