One of his poems describes how "creatures of silence emerged" with "brutal shriek and roar" calmed "in their hearts" after a certain figure built them a "temple at listening's core."
One of his poems describes how "creatures of silence emerged" with "brutal shriek and roar" calmed "in their hearts" after a certain figure built them a "temple at listening's core." The death of artist Paula Modersohn-Becker prompted this man to write his "Requiem for a Friend." He carried on a five-year correspondence with the soldier Franz (*) Kappus that was published as his Letters To A Young Poet. He gave the injunction "You must change your life" at the conclusion of a poem about an "Archaic Torso of Apollo." For 10 points, name this author of 55 Sonnets to Orpheus who asked "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders" in the first of his Duino Elegies.
One of his poems describes how "creatures of silence emerged" with "brutal shriek and roar" calmed "in their hearts" after a certain figure built them a "temple at listening's core."
Rainer Maria Rilke