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| | English Titles by Rainer-Maria Rilke |
 | | The Duino Elegies are one of the twentieth century’s great works of art. |
 | | In the space of ten elegies, presented here in a bilingual edition, an impassioned monologue struggles to find an individual answer to what it means to be human in a world torn by modern consciousness. |
 | | To be an ‘I’ means to be constantly caught between the polarities of the night and the day world, of animal and angel, of man and woman, of sexuality and spirituality, of hero and lover, of inner and outer world, of life and death, and never to be at one with any of it. |
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