Among the poems of Rainer Maria Rilke are "Songs of the perfected tactile beauty of fruits; stanzas that can be passed from hand to hand like a bowl, a shard, in the sense of the Greeks" (Walter Benjamin). Siegfried Unseld has compiled the most beautiful love poems of this poet. They are messages of love, following the highest mandate of existence: to learn to live love, to fully surrender to the experience of love "with all its hardly distinguishable delights.".