Poets like Rilke?

>inb4 translation

>>24534287 (OP)
I hate poetry that formulates gay questions

>>24534287 (OP)
>Flee grand subjects for those your daily life offers you. Express your sorrows and your desires, the thoughts that come to you, your faith in beauty. Say all this with an intimate, quiet, and humble sincerity. Use the things around you to express yourself, the images of your dreams, the objects of your memories. If your daily life seems poor, don't blame it. Accuse yourself of not being poetic enough to call forth its riches. For the creator, nothing is poor; there are no poor, indifferent places. Even if you were in a prison, whose walls muffled all the sounds of the world, wouldn't your childhood still remain, that precious, that royal wealth, that treasure of memories? Turn your mind to it. Try to refloat the impressions that have sunk from this vast past. Your personality will be strengthened, your solitude will be filled, and it will become like a home during the uncertain hours of the day, closed off from outside noises.

Absolute kino

>>24534287 (OP)
You know you have never actually read Rilke, right? A translation of poetry is a completely different work and you read the work by whatever translator you chose.

>>24534319
Literature is not about words but symbols. Good literature can survive a translation.

>>24534319
Shut the fuck up homo

>>24534322
anti-translationtards are too low iq to understand this

>>24534322
Every great poet would disagree with you.

Yeah Stephen Mitchell's composition can be a bit clunky but what Rilke does for me is imagery and ideas rather than sounding pretty.

Also unlike most tards on this board, I don't pretend to be more intelligent than I am. Gatekeep all you want, you'll never experience happiness.

>>24534337
I'm paraphrasing a poet, actually
lol

>>24534344
Ah but you forget that anon has an opinion and he's smart, which makes all his opinions correct

Quite liked Don Paterson’s Orpheus. Where to next?

>>24534322
If that were true then we wouldn‘t be qualitatively measuring poetry/prose at all.

Topic: Was reading The Waste Land simultaneously with Duineser Elegien recently and felt they had similar ideas and expression, in addition to being published around the same time in different literary scenes.

>>24534287 (OP)
schiller