His correspondence with a student at the Vienna Military Academy, Franz Kappus, was collected in Letters to a Young Poet.
One of this man's uncollected poems remarks "Again and again, however we know the landscapes of love." In one poem, he wrote of a woman "whirling faster and faster" who "fans her dress to passionate flames," while another describes figures "like enormous feathery blossoms, seducing" and mentions "all the subtle paints of Fragonard." Besides "The Flamingoes" and "Spanish Dancer,"" this author of the collection Lares' Sacrifice wrote a poem which states "We cannot know" the title figure's "legendary head" and claims "You must change your life." His correspondence with a student at the Vienna Military Academy, Franz Kappus, was collected in Letters to a Young Poet. This author of "Archaic Torso of Apollo" and "The Panther" also wrote a set of works dedicated to Vera Ouckham Knoop, as well as a cycle of poems beginning "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hiearchies?" For 10 points, name this author of the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies.
One of this man's uncollected poems remarks "Again and again, however we know the landscapes of love.
Rainer Maria {Rilke}