Invitation to Rilke. The one hundred most beautiful Rilke poems: With its exquisite design featuring a linen cover, ribbon bookmark, and colorful endpapers, it is perfect for gifting and rereading. This collection focuses on poems from Rilke's early and middle years: they invite the reader to listen to the voices and subtle tones of autumn days, to follow the graceful steps of the panther, and to walk in the footsteps of a girl whose path is traced by an early poem. Images and observations, colors and sounds delight anyone who approaches these verses with an open heart. "When I look at the blue night, snowed in by May, in which the worlds travel wide paths, I feel: I carry a piece of eternity in my chest. It shakes and screams and wants to rise up and wants to circle with them... And that is the soul." Prague 1896.