This reading book brings together the most beautiful poems and prose texts of Rainer Maria Rilke. The collection is themed "Being Here is Wonderful," reflecting the profound and evocative insight found in the Duino Elegies, which could encompass Rilke's entire poetic work. No one else has succeeded like Rilke in capturing the beauty and horror of earthly existence in uniquely beautiful images and perfected poems. By choosing the form of poetic imagery to express his personal worldview, as well as the still-relevant question of how to live in this devastated world, he earned the admiration and following of many poets, along with the love of readers.