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Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows — ‘What a world you’ve got inside you.’ | The On Being Project

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Rainer Maria Rilke’s prophetic musings about solitude and relationship, humanity and the natural world, gender and human wholeness.

Krista Tippett, host: If you have listened to On Being for any period of time, you have probably heard me invoke Rainer Maria Rilke. His works of prose and poetry are enduringly beloved — the Sonnets to Orpheus; the Duino Elegies; the Book of Hours. But none of his words have carried more persistently across time than his Letters to a Young Poet. It’s a small volume of ten letters Rilke wrote between 1903 and 1908 to a young military cadet and would-be poet, named Franz Kappus. Kappus reached out to Rilke, full of anguish about life, about love, about adulthood. But Rilke’s way of addressing…

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