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Rilke and Marina Tsvataeva : Letters – Letters To A Hypothetical Lover

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Rilke and Tsvataeva did not meet one another. Though they communicated through letters till the end of Rilke’s life. Boris Pasternak introduced Tsvataeva to Rilke in a letter in 1926. Pasternak called Marina “(my) greatest and probably only friend, who shares (my) love for you…” in that letter. Rilke sent a letter to Tsvataeva along with copies of his books. In that letter, he called her “Dear Poet”. Tsvataeva who was already a fan of Rilke’s poetry, elated on receiving the letter from the great poet, wrote the reply immediately. Tsvataeva addressed him by his name ‘Rainer Maria Rilke’ but soon she wrote in the same letter : “You are not my dearest poet (“dearest” – a level), you are a phenomenon of nature, which cannot be mine and which one does not so much love as undergo, – or (still too little) the fifth element incarnate: poetry itself – or (still too little) that whence poetry comes to be and which is greater than it (you). It isn’t a question of Rilke the person (personhood: th

Rilke and Tsvataeva did not meet one another. Though they communicated through letters till the end of Rilke’s life. Boris Pasternak introduced Tsvataeva to Rilke in a letter in 1926. Pasternak called Marina “(my) greatest and probably only friend, who shares (my) love for you…” in that letter. Rilke sent a letter to Tsvataeva along with copies of his books. In that letter, he called her “Dear Poet”. Tsvataeva who was already a fan of Rilke’s poetry, elated on receiving the letter from the great poet, wrote the reply immediately. Tsvataeva addressed hi

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