On C. S. Lewis: The Screwtape Letters IV (Prayers)
The interest of the fourth Screwtape Letters is prayer. I confess, I believe in prayers. My belief having been shaped by sources like the Showings of Julian of…
Between the Pages of Letters to A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke X
"Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more…
Between the Pages of Letters to A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke IX
And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something…
Between the Pages of Letters to A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke VIII
It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living. Because…
Between the Pages of Letters to A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke VII B
The previous commentary in this series on Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, attempted a translation of a perspective which agrees with what Rilke puts as “it is…