Rainer Maria Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo"

“Rilke’s most immediate and obvious influence has been upon diction and imagery. [He expressed ideas with] physical rather than intellectual symbols. While Shakespeare, for example, thought of the non-human world in terms of the human, Rilke thinks of the human in terms of the non-human, of what he calls Things.” -W.H. Auden Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe