A Thousand Nights Deep
Rilke and the Angels of His Poetry. The Biography
No one chooses the theme for their life. These life themes often exert their influence in secret but sometimes become urgent and demand clarification. They want to be accomplished, as Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) knew. It is astonishing that a biography about Rilke and his angels has not been written up to now. Angels apparently fly under the radar of perception. They are too flighty for the sciences and too esoteric for the churches. However, Rilke’s female friends took angels as his life theme seriously. Uwe Wolff explores the topic in this spiritual biography. He tells of Rilke’s inner life and the women who accompanied him on his way to completing the “Duino Elegies” – his greatest work of poetry with angels as its leitmotif.
- Rilke’s “spiritual biography”
- By angel researcher Uwe Wolff
