The Quantum of Light

Sonnets to Orpheus

by Rainer Maria Rilke

Published: 1 January 1923

Fifty-five sonnets Rainer Maria Rilke wrote at the Château de Muzot in February 1922, in the same weeks he completed the Duino Elegies.

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