Rainer Maria Rilke 
Poems 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. To speak of Poetry is to speak of the most subtle, the most delicate, and the most accurate instrument by which to measure Life. Poetry is reality’s essence visioned and made mani fest by one endowed with a perception acutely sensi tive to sound, form, and colour, and gifted with a power to shape into rhythmic and rhymed verbal sym bols the reaction to Life’s phenomena. The poet moulds that which appears evanescent and ephemeral in image and in mood into everlasting values. In this act of creation he serves eternity.