"Beautiful when a heart opens up like this, not even in its first quarter, just like the full moon on its most perfect night..." Rilke later wrote about his first encounter with Claire Goll. Claire's and Rilke's correspondence began in 1918 and, despite their restraint, shows that the 43-year-old and the 28-year-old soon share a deep friendship and more. They exchange thoughts about their works, provide each other with comfort, and write to each other with passionate longing. This volume also contains seven French-language poems that Rilke had sent to Claire as a small hand-bound book, as well as the long unpublished and believed-to-be-lost manuscript "Feelings. Verses by Claire Studer," which was found in the archive of Insel Verlag, Leipzig.